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Last week the first finger of the Allied hand jabbed deepest into the softening Japanese defenses. At its tip were jungle-wise troops of the Chinese 22nd Division under General Lee Tao, who had marched and fought 210 miles through roadless terrain in two months; and U.S. troops seasoned with veterans of Merrill's Marauders, now gathered in an outfit ominously named Mars Task Force. Commanding it was Brigadier General John P. Willey, who had conquered Myitkyina...
...also celebrated Free China's anniversary, paid tribute to China's struggle. In Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel nearly a thousand leading U.S. friends of China heard United China Relief's President James L. McConaughy, Ambassador Wei Tao-ming, China's Vice Premier and Finance Minister, Dr. H. H. Kung, describe China's indomitable struggle and desperate needs...
What that U.S. air force has meant to China was indicated in a ballad reprinted last week by the New York Times from Chungking's Central Weekly-titled Ballad of the Eagles, written by Tien Chin, translated by Frank Tao...
Eugene O'Neill revealed that he had sold his spacious, white-walled "Tao House"-across the bay from San Francisco. "I have to go East on business, but this has nothing to do with the theater," said the playwright, who during his seven year seclusion at "Tao House" (with his third wife, exactress Carlotta Monterey) has been struggling against a recurring ailment to complete his cycle of seven plays: A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed. No comment by O'Neill was reported on the news that a child was expected in August by his 18-year-old daughter...
...brought to book"; 2) those serving to keep their rice bowls filled "may be pardoned and even given liberal treatment." Liang said that Wang Ching-wei, No. 1 puppet in Asia, is definitely one of those to be punished when captured. Others were doubtful, recalled that Wang had tao-ko ("reversed spear") five times, betraying causes he once espoused, and had always been forgiven...