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...thing he wanted information about in a hurry was China. He called in Secretary of State George Marshall, talked with him for 25 minutes about what urgent assistance might properly be given to Chiang Kai-shek's government. Wise Wellington Koo, China's veteran ambassador, came in to plead for speed. Coming out of Harry Truman's office, Koo said that the President had given him some encouragement. With Oriental politeness, Koo added: "He is most au courant and most sympathetic...
...cities, the prestige of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had sunk lower than the Yangtze. An American traveler in Shanghai wrote home: "His name is mud in all classes-they feel toward him as Americans felt toward Herbert Hoover in 1933." The U.S. Embassy was evacuating Americans as fast as it could. In the U.S. itself headlines flared the black news. China-and what to do about it-was Page One; Asia's howitzers could now be heard in Kansas City, although the U.S. still had only a very partial notion of how big its stake was in the China...
Most U.S. military observers had thought that the Reds would crush Chiang Kai-shek's forces at Suchow, and take his capital, Nanking, in a matter of days. When this did not happen last week, they could hardly believe...
...dollar, the gold yuan had sunk in two weeks to a tenth of its original value. A wave of defeatism swept Nationalist China. Frail Wong Wen-hao, a geologist in private life, tried three times to resign as Premier, finally agreed to hang on until Chiang Kai-shek could find a successor...
Your suggestion that the U.S. should withdraw from Chiang Kai-shek and view the probable communistic domination of China with calm, as brought, out in your editorial "Chinese Puzzle" (Nov. 6), appears to be quite practical, but is actually a masterpiece of near-sighteness. That Harry Truman is a follower of this same policy is only another factor that makes his recent victory such a tragic event...