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Around the Stove. Like people everywhere, Freedom's citizens had their worries. Said John Kay: "I don't like a man in debt and over his head like our government is." He worried about Russia too: "When they get China they'll come after us." But for all that, almost everyone agreed with Gail Abrell that Freedom had plenty to be thankful...
...people had entered the church to hear the Christmas singing. They piled coats and purses on the back pews and looked about with appreciation. A fire was snapping in the stove, a big U.S. flag was hung near the front of the church, and the piano was decorated with holiday greens...
...weather and the military situation. A chalked caution on the briefing board read: "Suchow general situation calm. Fighting going on southeast ten kilometers away. Never circle over or come down to look at fighting area." MacWilliams stopped to talk with other pilots warming their hands over a coal stove. Like MacWilliams, a former U.S. Navy search pilot, they had come to China after the war because they liked flying and could make good money. In a busy month they could net as much as the equivalent...
...What Next?" After the manager had left, a group of seven elderly American women near the stove buzzed with conversation. "What next?" said one, through the black veil pulled tightly under her chin. The others shrugged. On the first lap of a world tour, they had taken a week out to visit Peiping. "I understand Bangkok is nice," said another hopefully...
...heavyset, spectacled Chinese in a black overcoat with brown fur collar separated himself from the group at the stove, and paced slowly back & forth across the width of the hut. He talked readily. He was General Hu Chia-yi, former Mukden garrison commander. He had left Mukden on the last Chinese Air Force plane to get off in the last few days before Mukden's fall. His force of 500 military police was the city's only defense. What did he think of the government strategy in Manchuria? He hesitated. "Pu-tui-ti" (Mistaken), he said, and resumed...