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Madame Chiang Kaishek, resting on Brazil's Brocoio Island off Rio de Janeiro (TIME, July 24), was reported inclined toward U.S.-style cooking. Restaurateur Alfredo Balbis, catering to her party, also said that though her diet forbids seafood, she demanded shrimp and got it. Other items in demand: Coca-Cola, mineral water, port...
...dusk fell, the army fell out along the road. We slept. Next day about noon we arrived at divisional headquarters, four miles behind the lines. We had been assigned to the famed 151st Division, whose chief of staff 25 years ago was Chiang Kaishek. The 151st, like all Chinese divisions, was understrength. The entire division had two pieces of artillery-two antique French 75's-several mortars, some machine guns and rifles. It also had guts. What it had to do was to move up the hills in the daylight, ignoring Jap artillery, and dig live Japs...
Democratic Talk. For China's inner discord, War and the Working Class blamed not the Chinese Communists but Chiang Kaishek. "For years a great part of Chiang's best troops, headed by the most experienced generals and officers, have been 'guarding' China from the 'Communists' . . . who are waging a continuous, active, partisan war against the greater portion of the combined Japanese and puppet Chinese troops...
Democratic Action. As if in answer to this challenge, the Chungking Government last week took a big democratic step. On recommendation of President Chiang Kaishek, it approved a habeas corpus act. Thus, for the first time in their history, the Chinese people (unlike the Russian people) were guaranteed against imprisonment without trial...
Madame Chiang Kaishek, who spent three months in a U.S. hospital on her last visit (1942-43) to the Western Hemisphere, arrived by plane in Brazil. She was suffering from nervous exhaustion and insomnia, planned a three-month rest cure. In China, she had been under the care of U.S. Assistant Naval Attaché Commander Frank Harrington, said he had warned her that "I'd never be cured if I stayed in Chungking...