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...announcement, published only three months after Stilwell had been made the Army's sixth four-star general,* was a crisp, close-mouthed paragraph. It gave no explanation of General Stilwell's unceremonious removal from his glamorous list of jobs as 1) Chief of Staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek; 2) Deputy to Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten. Commander in Chief of Allied Forces, Southeast Asia; 3) U.S. Commander of the China-Burma-India theater...
...such that he became world-famed as a man of good will. From his 1941 visit to blitzed Britain, where he played darts with the men in pubs, on through the invaluable support he gave Lend-Lease, through his 1942 visit to meet Stalin and Chiang Kaishek, his prestige as an American citizen rose as steadily as did the American people's interest in foreign affairs...
...barbed wire entanglements; pillboxes fashioned from torndown buildings. It had the best fed, best armed, best uniformed soldiers remaining among China's tattered legions. For commander it had bald, white-gloved General Pai Chung-hsi, one of Kwangsi Province's best, fresh from talks with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. To aid Pai, General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell sent every ounce of U.S. small arms, mortars and ammunition that could be spared from the tonnage flown over the Hump...
...first day of their stay the Americans saw Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Next day they conferred with the Chinese Ministers of Economic Affairs and Communications, the Vice Minister of Finance, and others. They held a press conference, attended by almost 40 reporters, largely Chinese. Businessman Nelson took complete command of the situation, spoke with off-the-record frankness. The gist of his on-the-record remarks: the U.S. mission's primary purpose was to set up the means for licking Japan. But it was also going to study the economic situation, present and prospective, with a view to immediate...
Madame Chiang Kaishek, who arrived in Brazil in July for a three-month "rest-cure," prepared to travel on to the U.S. for "badly needed" medical treatment...