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Force of Destiny. As chief political adviser to General Joseph Stilwell, when Vinegar Joe was chief of staff to Chiang Kai-shek in 1942, Davies followed the line that Chiang's regime was hopelessly corrupt and doomed, that the Chinese Communists had "mass support" and were "the force destined to control China." Soldier Stilwell took the Davies position. In a 1944 memorandum, Davies wrote: "We should not now abandon Chiang Kai-shek . . . But we must be realistic. We must not indefinitely underwrite a politically bankrupt regime. And if the Russians are going to enter the Pacific war, we must...
...Memphis, Tenn., retiring president of the Convention, warned against "ecumenical adventures." Most Southern Baptists, he said, "believe that Christian unity in any body which does not adhere strictly to the divine principles of evangelical truth embodied in the New Testament is as impossible as to expect vinegar and sugar to mix without vinegar losing any sourness or sugar any sweetness...
...overall reform, it sounded like simple sloth. Faced with cultural mysteries, Westerners concocted superficial myths. The big myth about the Chinese: that they don't know how to "get things done." Upshot of such reasoning: Chiang Kai-shek's government was scuttled while otherwise hardheaded Westerners (e.g., "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell) sang the praises of Mao Tse-tung's "efficient" Communists...
...before Pearl Harbor, he got a long letter from his old classroom instructor, Colonel General Alfred Jodl, explaining the Nazi breakthrough in France) made him a key planner in both the Mediterranean and Normandy campaigns, boosted him from lieutenant colonel to major general in two years. In 1944, when "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell was recalled, he took over command of all U.S. forces in China. The youngest (48) of U.S. theater commanders, he doubled as Chiang Kai-shek's chief of staff, re-equipped and retrained China's shattered armies, and won the third star of a lieutenant general...
...Cardinals' Wilmer ("Vinegar Bend") Mizell, 20, tagged by sportwriters as "the lefthanded Dizzy Dean." In a pure corn-pone drawl, Vinegar explains his nickname: "Vinegar Bend, Mississippi [pop. about 75] is where ah gets mah mail.'' Signed as a barefoot prospect in nearby Leakesville, Miss. (pop. around 1,000) two years ago, Vinegar bounced up the Cardinal chain to Winston-Salem last year, where he won 17 games, struck out 227 batters in 207 innings. Cardinal Manager Marty Marion exults over his huge (6 ft. 3 in., 200 lbs.) pitcher: "He has the livest fast ball...