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...public statements. Last week, when she broke her silence, she voiced again the democratic conscience of China; once more she raised the dormant but still-vibrant national hopes of her late great husband, whose liberal program has been all but lost in the pressures of war under Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
...Chiang Kaishek, bearing the brunt of China's immense lacks and burdens, did not have to pay immediate attention to his revered sister-in-law's demands for internal reform. But her statement was also a reminder to the Western world that much more than military strategy is now involved in China...
Though inviting Joseph Stalin to the recent Roosevelt-Churchill conference Africa and not inviting Chaing-KaiShek may have sound military and political motives, that neglect of China is merely the latest example of the Anglo American attitude toward helping our allies in the Far East, according to Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter, of the Harvard Bureau of International Research...
...enclosure of a Casablanca hotel surrounded by barbed wire and bristling guards, they conferred, discussed, mulled over their problems. They were in close touch with Russia's Joseph Stalin, who was too busy with war on his own soil to join them, with China's Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. They brought together, for the first time, the two leading figures in the tangled French political situation: Fighting French General Charles de Gaulle and General Henri Honore Giraud, High Commissioner of French Africa...
...instance, there has been a trend recently toward what is called 'leadership' -but what is really nothing more than the idolization of individual men. ... In Russia there is Joseph Stalin; in China, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek; in Britain, Winston Churchill; in the United States, Franklin Roosevelt. . . . They deserve the high positions they have won. And yet, dare we say that any one of them is indispensable? The moment we say that our world must change...