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Chinese reaction to the plan to temporize with Japan was prompt and bitter. Owen Lattimore, U.S. political adviser to Chiang Kaishek, cabled: "I have never seen the Generalissimo really agitated before. . . . [This] would dangerously increase Japan's military advantage in China. . . . The Generalissimo questions his ability to hold the situation together if the Chinese national trust in America is undermined...
...commanders in China were perfectly aware that they were carrying out the U.S. Government's pledges to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. They also knew that Washington took the orders to stay out of "fratricidal strife" very seriously, and that they might be in trouble both with Washington and with the uninformed U.S. people if Americans got killed in the process. Up to this week, none had been killed by Chinese fire...
...frisky, furry young pandas were fresh from the mountain forests of Szechwan Province. They were presents to the New York Zoo from Madame Chiang Kaishek. In 1941, the zoo named them Pan-Dee and Pan-Dah. They appeared to be in the pink of health. But the great question was: were they a pair or were they a couple? It was hoped they would turn out to be a couple-but nobody knew for sure...
...Yenan flocked to the airfield to see nervous Mao Tse-tung take off for his unity conference with Chiang Kaishek. U.S. Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley had flown up from Chungking the night before (with two cases of Scotch) to escort the Communist leader. Mao hugged his little daughter, kissed his young wife goodbye with the quiet desperation of a man going to be executed. Then he climbed aboard for the first plane ride of his 52 years, his first meeting with the Generalissimo in two decades of civil strife...
...exiles organized a Pro visional Government at Shanghai. For two decades they had factional troubles. In 1942 they united again, under the Presidency of earnest, greying Kim Koo, who had taken refuge in Chungking, and won financial support and de facto recognition from Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. The new coalition of exiles did not include the 300,000 Koreans in Siberia. They remained aloof and inaccessible. At least 30,000 of them were said to be organized in a Red Army unit. They were apparently under the leadership of two veteran Korean leftists, Park Hoon...