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From the historian's point of view the saving of Chiang Kai-Shek by American aid should have been started in the 1930's with land reform programs, Fairbank pointed out. We missed our chance then to help the Nationalist government, he asserted, just as we are in danger of missing our chance with India today...
...much as Mac-Arthur believes, because, for one thing, life is cheap in China; a naval blockade would involve the U.S. with Russian ships, would probably "leak like a sieve," and would not shut off the main Chinese supplies, coming by land from Russia; the value of Chiang Kai-shek's troops on Formosa in any expedition against the Reds is negligible. "I do not believe . . . the result would be commensurate with the effort that we would have to make...
...planner in both the Mediterranean and Normandy campaigns, boosted him from lieutenant colonel to major general in two years. In 1944, when "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell was recalled, he took over command of all U.S. forces in China. The youngest (48) of U.S. theater commanders, he doubled as Chiang Kai-shek's chief of staff, re-equipped and retrained China's shattered armies, and won the third star of a lieutenant general...
...great was U.S. aid to Nationalist China? The State Department and its apologists say that $2 billion to $4 billion was given to Chiang Kai-shek-and squandered by him in ineffectual war on the Communists. Utley winnows the figures, concludes that not more than $360,000,000 (and probably less) in military aid actually got to the Nationalists. A good deal of U.S. aid arrived nine months to a year after the Communists conquered the greater part of China. It never came near to matching the vast aid, in captured Japanese arms, turned over to the Communists...
...Agrarian Reformers. The most controversial issue in the China story is still the nature of China's Nationalist Government. Author Utley does not try to whitewash the Chiang Kai-shek regime. But she reviews Chiang's crushing postwar problems: the revival of a national economy beaten down by eight years of war against Japan. "The picture, drawn by popular journalists and authors, of a reactionary Kuomintang preserving a 'feudal' social organization," she concludes, "was in fact entirely misleading...