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...family-three daughters, two sons. But Joe Stilwell, honest, good-humored scholar, teacher and family man, was also known as an acidulous observer of the world of men. For his avuncular benignity, he was called "Uncle Joe." For his biting comments on dopes and humbugs, he was nicknamed "Vinegar...
...sides, frustrations presently piled up. All of Joe Stilwell's vinegar personality could not bite a way through the conflicting confusions of U.S. foreign policy, Chinese domestic policy and Britain's Asiatic aims...
...campaign to reopen a road to China through northern Burma, "Vinegar Joe," at 59, proved himself a crack field commander, a masterly tactician-and also a driving, red-tape-be-damned anti-diplomat. His men, Chinese and American, saw him frequently from their jungle foxholes. He jeeped across the tortuous terrain indefatigably, injected his high-octane personality into every advance...
From Chungking came censor-blurred reports of "Vinegar Joe's" further doings. There were reports of a new training plan for the Chinese Army. There were reports of more supplies to be sent into China over the Burma-Ledo road when it was finished. Backgrounding all the rumors were the delicate political situation in China, the conflict of Chinese and British interests in southeast Asia, and the pressure of Communists in and out of China. Army men, who knew about Chinese-speaking Joe Stilwell's blunt forthrightness, reflected that his job called for the diplomacy of a super...
Earlier, in Burma, Hardin-Simmons' Sandefer, the war's widest-ranging educational wildcatter, had accomplished even more. To General Joseph ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell he offered 25 four-year scholarships for Chinese soldiers in his command...