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...from Washington in time to avert an explosive feud inside WPB (TIME, Sept. 4). Otherwise, the trip's purpose was something of a mystery. But Donald Nelson had bustled happily for 16 days through Chungking's mud and rain, conferred and consulted dynamically with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his advisers. The patient Chinese, even after seven years of war, were polite-in fact, they were so courteous and cooperative that Don Nelson fell in love with China. If the President will only allow it, he would rather like to go back to China as the U.S. Government...
From Chungking for the occasion came a scroll which, inscribed in President Chiang Kai-shek's own hand, bore a happy token for the future of China House and U.S.-Chinese friendship. Wrote the Generalissimo: "The way is one and the winds blow together...
Reclaiming Lost Legions. The Chinese high command tried to weaken the Jap blow by staging a diversion far to the north, around Ichang on the Yangtze River. But Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek knew that something more than a diversion was needed. Even as Hengyang was falling, he had put the finishing touches to a plan for Army reform which would doubtless meet opposition from vested military interests, a plan whose terms proclaimed that all was far from well in China's war-worn Army. Its chief points...
...land. There is one cow per ten soldiers, one pig per two soldiers, one sheep or goat per soldier.This arrangement gives each a daily ration of 2 Ibs. of grain, 2 Ibs.of vegetables, and each gets 6 lbs. of meat per month. The rations of most of Chiang Kai-shek's troops are not so good...
Meanwhile reports persisted that Chungking was shaky. A crisis, or a political reorientation, might be approaching. What role would astute Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek play? What would the Chinese Communists...