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Certain it is that for some time the famed Eighth Route Army has been an uneasy fieldfellow with the Central Armies. Communists scorn the elegant-mannered, fancy-uniformed officers of Whampoa Military Academy (founded by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek); the Government resents the exaggerated publicity the simple-living, peasant-loving, estate-looting Communist guerrillas have had. Government soldiers get $7.50 to $9 (Chinese) per month; Communist soldiers get $1. The Government charges that the Communists promised to limit their Army to some 45,000 men, but have recruited over 100,000. Communists charge that the Government promised a monthly subsidy...
...China would stand united even without Chiang Kai-shek," Charles S. Gardner, assistant professor of Chinese, stated yesterday...
...young correspondents handed their visiting cards (bearing the Chinese version of their names: Au Dung and Y Hsiao Wu) to U.S. missionaries and British diplomats, who received them kindly. They interviewed General von Falkenhausen (Chiang Kai-shek's German adviser at that time), histrionic U.S. Red Writer Agnes Smedley (China Fights Back), who thought they might be fascist plotters because they talked with von Falkenhausen. Madame Chiang Kaishek, with whom the poets took tea, was "for all her artificiality a great heroic figure," but the Generalissimo was "bald" and "mild-looking." We laughed as we pictured Chiang, Madame...
...obtain U. S. loans (notably $25,000,000 last December from the Export-Import Bank), and to buy U. S. munitions, motor trucks, airplanes. Some economists and humanitarians maintain that Japan has gained more than China by being able to buy at will in the U. S., but Chiang Kai-shek presumably thinks otherwise for he could invoke the Neutrality Act by simply declaring war on Japan. Meanwhile, some two million people have been killed in China, and the U. S. has not been involved...
...message to the Chinese people Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek maintained that Japan was being steadily weakened, that China was daily growing in strength. He figured Japanese casualties in China at 1,000,000, some 940,000 more than is admitted officially by the Japanese. In another 15,000-word address the Generalissimo begged the Japanese people to "awake from a publicity-induced stupor under militaristic supervision and save themselves from mad aggression leading to certain ruin and destruction...