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Madame Chiang Kai-shek sat expectantly on the edge of the President's huge swivel chair, like a young girl at her first matinee. Only when she leaned forward did the tips of her tiny, open-toed pumps touch the floor. On her left, Franklin Roosevelt, puffing at a cigaret, lounged easily in an oversize armchair. On her right, Eleanor Roosevelt sat stiffly erect, one hand on Madame Chiang's chair in a protective gesture...
...Chiang Kai-shek delicately drew attention to her weary country last week (see p. 23), the Chinese war reappeared in the news...
...Chinese, on the whole, do not feel slighted because Change Kai-Shek was not invited to the Casablanca conference, according to Dr. Hu. In the official statement issued recently, Dr. T. V. Soong, Minister of Foreign Affairs, revealed that China had been kept fully informed of the proceedings of the meeting and was well satisfied with the plans agreed upon...
...Joseph Stalin was invited (although he did not attend), and both he and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek were kept advised of the proceedings...
Across the central Asiatic wastes in China's far Northwest hinterland is fabulous, remote Sinkiang province (Chinese Turkestan), once a wild and bloody tribal battleground, now a virtual Russian buffer state. To Chiang Kai-shek this had long been an undeveloped treasure house, a possible last refuge for Free China; to Russia it was a cushion against Japanese-infiltrated Mongolia, against British influence from India. Last week the U.S. planned a consulate there-deeper inside Asia and Asiatic politics than this Government had ever penetrated before...