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...Order of the Day to his troops last week, General Eisenhower had found cause for hope that the enemy's big gamble might be turned into Germany's "worst defeat." But the wartime habits of U.S. civilians seemed destined to follow the philosophy of WPBoss Julius A. ("Cap") Krug: the U.S. must assume that we will still be fighting Germany...
...Mission puzzled over possible U.S. counterparts to the stage characters. The crude but levelheaded Mr. Perkins might well be a roughed-up composite of all the frankly capitalistic U.S. businessmen who have visited and charmed the Rusians: ex-U.S. Ambassador Joe Davies, the late Wendell Willkie, ex-WPBoss Donald Nelson, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Eric Johnston. But the nasty U.S. correspondent-a vicious roasting of all American journalists who dare to suspect or find one flaw in the Soviet system-was harder to place. Most obvious counterpart in Soviet eyes: the Reader's Digest...
...illusions. "People must not expect miracles from me," he says. But, ever mindful of China's vital relationship to the U.S., he urged the need for ever closer Chinese-American cooperation. He regretted that Donald Nelson (China's new WPBoss, now in Australia arranging for suplies) had not come to Chungking a year ago. Of U.S. Ambassador Pat Hurley and Major General Albert C. Wedemeyer (Chiang's chief of staff), he says: "We are on intimate terms. They see the main issues and they see them clearly." For T.V. still believes what he used...
...Chungking, whence he flew fortnight ago with a staff of 13 production experts, ex-WPBoss Donald Nelson was busy setting up a WPB for Chiang Kaishek. Every few days he took time out from his labors to issue enthusiastic bulletins: he had not struck a single snag so far; his goal is to double China's war production in six months. Finally he just came right out and said flatly: "This will be the best mission that ever came to China...
...simultaneously with his governmental shakeup, Generalissimo Chiang launched a sweeping reform of China's war production. A new War Production Board, headed by slight, scholarly Dr. Wong Wen-hao, was charged with coordinating all agencies dealing with production. From the U.S. came an economic mission, headed by ex-WPBoss Donald Nelson. Its job: to help Dr. Wong...