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...Chiang Kai-shek is still the only leader who has successfully fought the Japs to a standstill, the only leader who has yet to face a major German drive without a military disaster is Joseph Stalin. After six months of war, Stalin's armies have thrown back Hitler's armies from within 25 miles of his capital. Against better equipment and the greatest war machine the world has yet seen, they have fought, and yielded ground, have taken and inflicted stupendous losses, and gone on fighting. The credit for that achievement, for taking untold punishment, may belong...
Long before the attack there had been political stupidities. In September, Thai land, air and sea officers were given a thorough and amiable tour of inspection of Singapore's defenses; Thailand was now a Jap pawn. Well before the attack Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had offered Chinese troops to help defend British territory; the British had turned down the offer. At this late hour something was finally being done about mobilizing Malaya's 2,200,000 Japanophobe Chinese as air wardens, propagandists, guerrillas...
Fittingly enough, the strategy of unity was first proposed by the first victim of Axis aggression, China. In Chungking Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week suggested the immediate formation of an Allied High Command. Britain responded by directing General Sir Archibald Wavell to further British cooperation with China. Anthony Eden flew to Moscow to find out exactly how far Russia would go in joint action. In London and Washington both military and civil authorities of all the Allied nations conferred. President Roosevelt said that plans for joint action were coming along very nicely...
Last year lean, hardbitten, taciturn Colonel Claire L. Chennault (U.S. Army, retired), adviser to Chiang Kai-shek's Air Force, left Chungking for the U.S. He rounded up U.S. volunteers to fly 100 new P-40s purchased from the U.S. If U.S. aid were to flow in over the Burma Road, U.S. flyers would have to protect it. All through the summer months Colonel Chennault whipped his volunteers (dubbed the "Flying Tigers") into shape. By the time he was ready to fight, he had an added incentive: the Japanese were now the enemies of his own country...
Chief hope of Hong Kong was the Chinese army. Early reports had stated that Chiang Kai-shek himself was leading crack troops to the relief of the encircled islanders. This was unlikely but Chungking announced later that one of China's toughest war heroes, General Tsai Ting-kai, who had slugged the Japanese to a standstill in the 1932 Shanghai war, was among the commanders of relieving forces. Chinese troops were already reported battling in the Japanese rear at Tamshui, 28 miles north of the colony's border. The Chinese Air Force was in action over Canton...