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China Student. The career that was to take him to Asia began in 1883. Florida-born, Yonkers-bred Joe Stilwell, at 18, was sent by his doctor-lawyer father to West Point because he was something of an adolescent hellion. Young Stilwell would have chosen Yale. During World War I...
Now living in New York City, Hu Shih was honored by Harvard during the University's Tercentenary in 1936. At that time he was professor of Chinese philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Letters at the National University of Peiping. He is recognized as the outstanding figure in the...
Since TIME and LIFE Correspondent Jack Belden (Retreat with Stilwell) saw his first battle outside Peiping in 1937, he has reported war in Burma, India, North Africa, Malta, Sicily, Italy, been wounded at Salerno, recovered to get in the thick of the current European invasion. Still Time to Die is...
Thus was ending the seventh year of China's war. It had not been a hopeless year. At its end, the Chinese no longer felt that they had been fobbed off with nothing but promises. U.S. and British forces on the Burma fringe, U.S. airmen in China had done...
The enemy's plan had long been apparent. It was to secure the Peiping-Hankow-Canton railroad, firmly establish the Empire's equivocal hold on southeast China east of the railroad, knock out U.S. air bases there, and try to make the coast impregnable to U.S. attack. It...