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...proud of the First Lady the White House had for so long. She and Madame Chiang Kai-shek have my vote for the two greatest ladies of this...
Behind the resurgent Chinese armies (U.S.-trained, U.S.-supplied, U.S.-supported) was the cool, clear organizing and strategic brain of a tall, tactful American, the commander of all the U.S. forces in China and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's chief of staff-Lieut. General Albert Coady Wedemeyer. He was the youngest (48) of U.S. theater commanders and one of the least known to the U.S. public. But all of his past now seems like a long (sometimes circuitous) march toward his predestined task in China...
There is still no Allied unanimity on what to do with the Emperor. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government has made no bones about its wishes. It wants to dispose of Hirohito as Asia's War Criminal No.1. Acting Premier T. V. Soong has publicly hoped for the Emperor's destruction by U.S. bombers-"that would make one less embarrassing question to deal with later." Last week the Chungking press called for Hirohito's trial, execution and the public display of his body "on Sun Yat-sen Road near Nanking...
Other news: he said he would be very happy to meet other Allied leaders. He mentioned specifically Churchill, Stalin, Chiang Kai-shek and General de Gaulle, too, if he would like to see the President...
...admired the flowering plum and magnolia trees, found comfort in the promise of spring. In her eighth springtime of war, China was bearing an accumulated burden of inflation, hunger, disease, political disunity and military retreat. But somehow the nation was still holding together, and the Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had come back-a little way-from last fall's near-collapse...