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...coalition was merely a dream of men of good will, the only alternative was to try to pry the Reds off China's lifelines. Nanking had few illusions about that job. U.S. military observers had repeatedly told Chiang Kai-shek and his generals that the odds were heavily against a clean-cut Government victory. But responsible Nanking leaders (not merely reactionaries) saw no alternatives, except 1) continued stalemate accompanied by economic stagnation and further loss of popular support, or 2) coalition, which to them really meant postponing the war until the Reds were in a stronger position...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week left the heat and din of Nanking for breezeswept Kuling, the mountain resort which used to be China's prewar summer capital. There he shed his uniform for a comfortable gown and strolled about the clean-swept, maple-shaded streets. Nevertheless, the political temperature continued to rise and the Government's discomfiture increased...
LaGuardia himself had sent a bluntly pleading cable to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek ("it might not be couched in diplomatic language, but I tried to make it so he would understand") demanding "personal and prompt" action about CNRRA. "[UNRRA's] purpose," cabled the Little Flower, "is to help the rehabilitation of China and not the financial rehabilitation of warehouses...
...just too much to swallow that the Chiang Kai-sheks, whom you and everybody lauded to the skies, have suddenly become inefficient and evil. I hope you won't soon be imploring us to fight China. That seems to be the way we do it nowadays. I suppose now Japan is suddenly getting good again. Finland was once just tops in American eyes, now in the depths. Is Argentina now grand again, or are we still supposed to hate her? I just can't keep track of whom we are supposed to hate...
...rival representatives vainly continued their negotiations last week, the Nanking dopesters tried to guess what was in Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's mind. His bigger, better-equipped armies might score quick victories if they were unleashed. The reactionary clique within the Kuomintang clamored: "If [General Marshall] would only let us at the Communists we could clean them out in three to six months." (U.S. officers in China regard this estimate as optimistic...