Word: kai-shek
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...China, the internal equalization of surplus and deficit areas has been upset by war. In Chungking, which formerly drew its rice from battle-pocked Hunan via the Yangtze, black-market prices of rice were 30 times pre-war prices last spring. Last year, to make matters worse, Szechwan, Chiang Kai-shek's base province, had a crop failure. Its yield fell off almost 50%. To prevent hoarding, to make certain of Army and urban rice supplies, Chiang's Government this summer decided to collect the land tax in grain (almost exclusively rice), not money. With a better...
...Army, hating the democracies in general and Chiang Kai-shek in particular, is savagely pro-Axis. Feeling the hot breath of time on their necks, pinched seriously by the U.S. blockade, the officers want action. Speaking for the Army last week, blunt Colonel Hayao Mabuchi accused the U.S. and Britain of "a crime against humanity," urged Japan, if diplomacy failed, to break through encirclement "by force." Last week the Army acted by: 1) denying gasoline to all Japanese busses, taxis, private automobiles; 2) setting up a special A.R.P. bureau in the Home Ministry and distributing instructions on how to combat...
...Nomura was really empowered to speak for his nation. Ambassador Nomura was empowered, according to this report, to demand: i) U.S.-British recognition of Manchukuo; 2) U.S.-British recognition of Japan's special position in North China. In return for this Japan would: 3) make peace with Chiang Kai-shek on a basis of American mediation, withdraw from all China south of the Yellow River and west of the Peking-Nanking line; 4) withdraw from South China and Indo-China; 5) abandon the southward drive. Nor was this all. Am bassador Nomura further was to seek restoration of normal...
...dizzy weeks of needling, wheedling, probing, recommending and arguing, the 50-year-old trouble shooter had succeeded handsomely in administering to Free China's sole remaining commercial traffic vein a much-needed shot of adrenalin. Tonnage of U.S. and British war materials hauled through Burma to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's anxious people had more than doubled, promised to reach, then exceed the Road's original estimated capacity of 30,000 tons a month...
...while all this made Chiang Kai-shek beamish with joy, Dan Arnstein's mission was scarcely a flawless triumph. Knowing little, caring nothing about protocol and the sanctity of face in the Orient, at Chungking receptions the hardhitting ex-cabby and his blunt, breezy manner had Occidental diplomats squirming in suspense. Once, when a secretary from the U.S. Embassy inquired fretfully why he had not called on Ambassador Clarence Gauss, only the Chinese guests seemed to enjoy his typical retort: "Why should I?" snapped Arnstein. "I don't know...