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White is only 28 years old but he is the dean of Chungking correspondents-in fact, he has been there almost as long as General Chiang Kaishek. He was there all through the worst of the Jap air raids-was bombed from house to house and from shelter to shelter (during one horrible air raid the mangled body of a Chinese woman was blown 20 yards straight through his open window). But White's news-hunting has also carried him over much of the Far East...
Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, Method ist, had the delegates in to tea, praised the work of missionaries in China...
...Miss Caroline Cook, an art teacher in a Brooklyn high school, recalled the recent rally in Manhattan for Mme. Chiang Kaishek. "I wish we in America had more of the virtues she possesses, in some of our high officials. You see, we realize that America is not perfect. When I get discouraged at the errors made in high places, I remind myself that 95% of ordinary folks everywhere are kindly, honest, helpful to other human beings. Do you feel that way about...
Each time Gerald Nye belittled United Nations strategy, postwar planning, Roosevelt, Willkie, Churchill, Stalin, or Chiang Kaishek, the catcalls and clapping rocked the chandeliers, quivered against the black-and-jade glass murals...
...political. Political pressure he has exerted through puppets. The shadow regime of Henry Pu Yi set Manchurian Chinese apart from their southern countrymen. Similarly the regime of suave Wang Ching-wei, Japan's No. 1 puppet since March 1940, was designed to wean Chinese from allegiance to Chiang Kaishek. For three years the Mikado's generals stupidly sought to give Traitor Wang "face" without a pretense of authority. Chinese derided the puppet premier as "the prisoner of Nanking." Now the Jap has turned to a policy of blandishment. On paper he has granted Nanking breathtaking political and economic...