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...Progress. Chiang Kai-shek's 300-odd divisions-3,000,000 soldiers facing Japan's estimated 800,000 (30 or more divisions) on the 2,000-mile China front -believed that the Japanese could do no more against them than they had been doing. Only if Japan chose to throw in another 20 or 30 divisions was there more than a remote possibility of Chinese defeat. And those divisions seemed earmarked for another purpose: the invasion of eastern Siberia...
...life of the Soviet-Nazi pact when Japan, fearful of this unexpected move on the part of her traditional enemy, found it wise to turn smilingly to America. Despite all talk of economic sanctions, we continued to help both aggressor and aggressee by loans to China to enable Chiang Kai-shek to carry on his part of the war, and by huge shipments of materials to the invader as well. Since 1937, the American market has been the single most important adjunct of Japan's war machine, enabling the destructive military operations to be continued on an evergrowing scale...
Another time limit weighs upon Tokyo. It is set by U.S. aid to China, trickling now, rising steadily, destined to rise & rise. Before that stream of aid becomes a torrent the Japanese must crush Chiang Kai-shek's armies or face defeat...
...weeks Chungking has been worried by the Hull-Nomura conversations. Last month Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek summoned U.S. Ambassador Clarence E. Gauss to his mountain cottage behind the Yangtze bluffs, asked for information. Ambassador Gauss, having none, could say nothing. Later, when President Roosevelt told the world that the U.S. Navy would sink any Nazi raider molesting shipping in the western Atlantic, Chinese radio operators strained at their earphones to hear one word about China or the Pacific. They heard none. Chungking censors sup pressed Washington dispatches reporting that the U.S. was considering Japanese claims to north and central China...
This war of nerves was especially displeasing to friends of the U.S. in Chinese councils. But there is a strong minority of Government officials which for years has urged Chinese rapprochement with Germany. For years Chiang Kai-shek has insisted that China's lot lies with the democracies. Yet if all of Russia falls, Germany and China will be neighbors. Chiang Kai-shek would strike a bargain with the devil in order to save China from the Japanese...