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Blindness & Apathy. The committee was not convinced. It thought that China needed military as well as economic assistance. Last week it got plenty of support for this opinion. William C. Bullitt, onetime Ambassador to Russia, came forward to testify that the Nanking government was in immediate need of at least...
Whenever Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had a big decision to make, he liked to get away from his desk for quiet meditation. Early last month he went to the summer capital, Kuling, with Madame Chiang and a small staff. When he did not return after the first few days, the...
Planes on the Line. Chinese hoped that other U.S. help, recently announced in Washington, would also have a bite to it. They wondered. As a partial answer to critics, Washington had just revealed a top-secret agreement, signed in 1945, under which the Chinese had been promised 1,071 transport...
One day last week the Generalissimo returned from his meditative sojourn at Kuling. Nanking learned only that he had passed the days in long walks or, when the weather was bad, in playing Chinese chess with Madame Chiang in front of the fireplace. But there was no doubt of what...
At war's end, the Russians removed much of Anshan's movable equipment; the Nanking government was never able to restore production to more than a fraction of what it had been. For China, Anshan had remained just a promise. This week, the promise, like most of Manchuria...