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...special casualty was President Roosevelt's sixth cousin Joseph W. Alsop Jr., 31-year-old ex-columnist (Alsop & Kintner), who was reported missing at Hong Kong. Not a casualty in the line of journalistic duty, Alsop was working for Chiang Kaishek, as liaison officer with the volunteer U.S. flyers under Colonel Claire Chennault. If the Japanese nabbed him he has even less chance of being exchanged than other correspondent prisoners...
...stand up and trade blows with the Axis-not for three weeks or six months but year after year, giving odds if need be and fighting the enemy to a standstill. Such a demonstration has been given by the people whom the son of a Chinese peasant led-Chiang Kaishek...
Marquis Henri de la Falaise de la Coudraye ignored ex-wives Gloria Swanson, Constance Bennett when he answered an inquiring reporter's query: With what five women would he like to retire from business? His five: Ina Claire, Mme. Chiang Kaishek, Clare Boothe, Elsa Maxwell, Greta Garbo...
...death, ten to forced labor for life. Now printed only in English, Free World plans editions in Chinese, French, Spanish. Editorial board and contributors read like an anti-Fascist Who's Who: Cordell Hull, Nicholas Murray Butler, Dorothy Thompson, Clarence Streit, Eduard Benes, T. V. Soong, Mme. Chiang Kaishek. Its editor is Carlo a Prato, onetime secretary to Count Carlo Sforza when he was Italy's Foreign Affairs Minister (1920-21), for 20 years Geneva correspondent for the New York Times...
...while he reads a book in the evening. His favorite is the military strategy of Sun Tzu, the Chinese Clausewitz. Sun Tzu's first precept is one that Kichisaburo Nomura especially relishes. Ironically, it is also often on the lips of China's Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Also-and this is why Admiral Nomura's hopeful mission seems doomed to failure-it is the unspoken precept of the U.S. State Department. The Admiral's translation...