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...Competing for readers in Chungking are 13 dailies, including the Communist paper, the "liberal" Ta Rung Pao, the Roman Catholic Social Welfare Daily (Yih Shih Pao), the racy evening tabloid, New People's Daily (Hsin Min Pao), and the official Kuomintang and Army sheet, Central Daily News (Chung Yang Jih Pao), which has a partly free circulation of 150,000-perhaps more than all the others combined. All depend for most of their foreign and domestic news on the handouts of the Chinese Central News Agency, subsidized by the Kuomintang...
Then she told of a trip she had taken to the Heng-Yang Mountains to see the "Rub-the-Mirror Pavilion." There, 2,000 years ago, a young Buddhist monk had sat crossed-legged for days muttering "Amita Buddha! Amita Buddha!" The Father Prior took a brick and rubbed it against a nearby stone until the acolyte asked what he was doing...
...sights beyond the target of his own army's terrible tasks and achieved a global look at World War II. His conclusion: the U.S. and Britain can make their best contribution to the war in 1942 by opening a front in northern Europe. Said bullnecked, moon-faced General Yang Chieh, lecturing to the Chinese War College in Chungking: "In northern Europe ... it would be easiest for Britain, America and Russia to cooperate...
...General Yang still wanted the U.S. to send all the material aid it could to China. Like other Chinese, he felt that some U.S. officers were still not sufficiently energetic in dispatching aid to China. But, said global General Yang, who was Chinese Ambassador to Moscow in 1938-39: if Hitler is crushed, "Japan's fate is sealed...
Meckel taught them the principles of Clausewitz, which they eagerly took over, revamped, stamped Made in Japan. After a victory at Liao-Yang in the Russo-Japanese War, Field Marshal Prince Iwao Oyama cabled Meckel: "We hope you are proud of your pupils...