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...Played host to such distinguished foreign visitors as Madame Chiang Kaishek. Winston Churchil. Liberia's President Edwin Barclay and President-elect W.V.S. Tubman...
Last month it became clear to tired Chiang Kaishek, as to tired China, that reforms could not wait. for victory-that Allied help, until then too little, would be too late, that China, as usual, must rely upon China. Somehow China and Chiang found the strength. Chiang gave his armies a new, energetic Minister of War-young, able General Chen Cheng (TIME, Nov. 27). Just as important, Chiang had reorganized his civil administration. To China's No. 2 job, Acting President of the Executive Yuan, he appointed China's ablest administrator, his brother-in-law, Foreign Minister...
There was little immediate hope to offer. In Chungking Major General Albert C. Wedemeyer, the new U.S. military chief, hurried his defense plans in daily conferences with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. On one of China's gravest days in her seven years of war, General Wedemeyer was able to promise only a reasonable expectation-that the tide would be turned eventually by measures now in the making...
...China, from Asiatic prostitutes to European taipans (rich merchants). She has relatively little to say about Chinese politics ("I have not sold my soul to any political party"), though she prefers the Chungking Government to the Communists and insists that stories of quarreling among the Soong sisters (Mesdames Chiang Kaishek, H. H. Kung and Sun Yatsen) are just leftist propaganda. But readers of China to Me will learn something about China's impact on Emily, almost everything about Emily's impact on China...
Major General Albert C. Wedemeyer, one of General Marshall's "bright young men," worked hard at his job. As new U.S. military chief in China, 48-year-old General Wedemeyer had promptly presented his defense plan ("simple and I hope sound") to Chiang Kaishek. Five days later, without revealing its details, he was able to announce that it had been accepted by the harried Generalissimo. Chinese forces were now moving into place to meet the Japanese westward drive, would soon prove whether "Al" Wedemeyer's plan was sound as well as simple...