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...thing he wanted information about in a hurry was China. He called in Secretary of State George Marshall, talked with him for 25 minutes about what urgent assistance might properly be given to Chiang Kai-shek's government. Wise Wellington Koo, China's veteran ambassador, came in to plead for speed. Coming out of Harry Truman's office, Koo said that the President had given him some encouragement. With Oriental politeness, Koo added: "He is most au courant and most sympathetic...
...cities, the prestige of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had sunk lower than the Yangtze. An American traveler in Shanghai wrote home: "His name is mud in all classes-they feel toward him as Americans felt toward Herbert Hoover in 1933." The U.S. Embassy was evacuating Americans as fast as it could. In the U.S. itself headlines flared the black news. China-and what to do about it-was Page One; Asia's howitzers could now be heard in Kansas City, although the U.S. still had only a very partial notion of how big its stake was in the China...
Double Miracle? In the vortex of this gathering disaster, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was buoyant and determined. He dodged in & out of his private map room, saw dozens of visitors, counseled his field commanders by long-distance telephone. One day last week he drove through the cold rain to the cavernous National Assembly building, 20 minutes later emerged smiling. He had persuaded liberal Sun Fo, son of China's revered revolutionary leader Sun Yatsen, to become Premier in a new super war cabinet. Asked if the government planned to leave Nanking, Chiang said that no such plan was being...
Niels Bohr, one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, whom Oppenheimer affectionately refers to as "my father," was interviewed in his native Denmark by TIME "stringer," Kai Schou. A Nobel prize winner and one of the leaders in the fellowship of physics whom Oppenheimer first met at Cambridge University, Bohr had escaped from Nazi-occupied Denmark to collaborate with Oppenheimer and the other scientists in the research and development of the atomic bomb...
Most U.S. military observers had thought that the Reds would crush Chiang Kai-shek's forces at Suchow, and take his capital, Nanking, in a matter of days. When this did not happen last week, they could hardly believe...