Word: kai-shek
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...about-face in the propaganda line with regard to China, coincident with the recall of General Stilwell, is as indecent as that of the Communist line in this country at the time of Germany's attack on Russia. For years we have been fed the story of Chiang Kai-shek's wonderful accomplishment of uniting the Chinese people and of holding off the Japs, which is now being belittled. Our correspondents complain of the censorship and not being allowed to visit the Chinese front. Are they any more restricted than in Russia, from whose fronts even our military...
...fighting the war in Asia rather than on Japan's home soil. Nevertheless, he predicted that the Japanese could be defeated within a year after victory over Germany. The U.S., said he, would concentrate on supply for Chinese troops, continue air support for the Chinese Army. To Chiang Kai-shek he submitted recommendations ("simple and I hope sound") for immediate action against the enemy, kept his fingers crossed for speedy success in north Burma...
...Chungking this week Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek took the step that all friends of China had hoped for-he moved to strengthen his Government...
...personal representatives, Donald Nelson, all new to China and China to him, and Major General Patrick Hurley. Worldly, well-tailored Pat Hurley stopped off in Moscow to garner Premier Molotov's assurances that Russia has no designs on China, stopped off in Chungking to lecture Chiang Kai-shek on the urgent need to cooperate with Russia and the Chinese Communists. The Generalissimo, however, believed that his Government's most urgent need was more supplies...
Such a condition had been imposed on no other head of a foreign state. The implication was that Chiang Kai-shek could not be trusted with Lend-Lease...