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...with another 2,000,000 trained and untrained reserves, with perhaps another 500,000 guerrillas and partisans behind Japanese lines, has the edge in manpower. Japan has in the field 40 divisions, about 1,125,000 very weary men. Galling to the Chinese are the 100,000-odd Chinese puppet troops who are humbly fighting, carrying material, digging latrines for the enemy...
...instrument for which it was intended. Since the harpsichord seems to have a definite place musically, it is strange that modern composers in their search for new colors and mediums have not attempted to write for it, except in a very few instances (De Falla's Concerto and his puppet-opera El Retablo de Maese Pedro, for example), It will be interesting in the future to see whether this instrument will take its place again as a medium of the expression of the time, or will remain only a means of reawakening the music of the past...
Wang Ching-wei, prospective head of the "all-the-People" puppet Government of China, a Japanese tool with combined Japanese Army-Government approval freshly stamped on his forehead, sent a wordy telegram to the Generalissimo. He proposed discussions "with a view toward securing nationwide peace on a basis of honor and justice and to facilitate the solution of such problems as the total withdrawal of Japanese troops from China. ... I am sending this message from my inner heart." Terms of the pact: Chinese recognition of Manchukuo; North China and Mongolia to be a "special zone for defense and economic development...
...Generalissimo's answer: phooey. The Chinese Government recognized the Japanese accent in Wang's polite phrases, and the semi-official Chungking newspaper Ta Kung Pao retorted: "Even if you can arrange a puppet reign, Wang, can you stand a single blow from our iron fist...
Next, establishment of the Wang Ching-wei puppetry was again postponed. Puppet-elect Wang's "final" terms had been accepted by Army, China Affairs Board and tottering Cabinet, but the defection of Chinese support for the regime, and political troubles in Japan, meant new delays...