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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1948.
Famous letter from Roomveit| THE TWENTY-FIRST INSTALMENT
to George Marshall. [Referring
to Chiang Kai-shok]—"[he] Camb" up. "Tho' hard way" „to"nc-- |tofriplish_id' a few years what
took us 200 years to attai
it
One cannot speak sternly or exact commitments from a man like that, as if he were a trible chist- tain,"
Then orders come for Chert- pault to have 1,500 out of 4,000 tons [total honthly delivery of In China] for his
Hump altline
war. Then he, gels, a sophrate Air Service Cómmand, Tien be
chief of staff]!
Plan
that
luckily
The Stilwell Papers
Even the ait was a en Chennnull. But what's the use
can
..
at
++
D.
0. For airfields $800,000,000 or a yulion [Chinese (dollars), 9.K. For the Burma Road -after "month', of struggle st million..where $200 militon la fielded.
to buy Animals. Refused them when, wo asked because tod expensive. One rule, [then]. 12,000' (Chinese dol-- toral. Now
the July... Solution Is buy smaller number with
and 10.
shock.
pried is 40,000.
to
same to Blog/ mairoil at
Attempts
Ramgarh. The "lump sum" agitation. sfunt. Constant
Lo Cho-ying got away with 100,000 rupees a month. Split In Chungking, of course; lie's now in War Ministry. 11. War Ministry Interference in command and organisation at
Constant fight. namgarh... (UNDATED These are Gonoral Stilwell's, notes of a conversation with it Chinese of cabinet rask.
ON Chinna
wants to
ba
He
mprat poteritate, a religious leader Dhilosopher, talous How
tark
cided upon at a conference aliffe not alert Win [Mrs. Stilwell). Frar-shek wished to divert the in War Ministry has seen them The answer came from Chlangim the southing unpleasant..
Is to control the ATC by brders teenth Air Forcel, then 2,200 for any troops down from Shens; we fai Li chief of the Chinese, .thione devils the Secret Police) controls it. An- 24354 of Arnold, apdaking for the Pre-ground. They will do the Jos must watch
sident, and giving it to mò ver- some damage but at the Bame Communists.”
other pretty kettle of ash. ar Reporters & General Omee 32312 bally through Glenn Chennault's effort that it may fail. Then what munitions) at Chungking so graft off it in large hunks.
time will go wesken, the ground
says to build up a stock [of course he controls" it,"hild taxes.
tempted to Wavell han a grievance. 18,000 the hell use is it to knock down Chlang won't be
So we're right where we starl Subscription Roles: of "y" frucks are in U.S. ports, a few Jup planes,
nch. Mr. Churchill wreck Yoke, but of course that ed. Trucks, but no money. Than and the goddam Americmus won't
Farewell lunch.
means tonnage and to do it we the road. No hutry; we can do H.K.$10.00 ship them to him. Furthermore, "Mr. President, I cannot but behave to deny Yoke an equal tonit in three months, or even twó
that all-wise Fruvidence nage
$131 if he doesn't get 180,000 tons lieve
of much-needed weapons, and a half. Maybe we'll have II.K.480.00 month,
events, The situation is critical and will more labour, After the firfields he just can't jump off hus draped these great
pertext of the remain so. Any Jap threht will are finished. Maybe it August ILK$12.00 (for a fall Burma offensive. He at this criileat
world's history, about your por- put the G'mo. In an uproar, and
we can begin only got 40,000 is in March wallly and your higis offer. If they are wine they will repeut andi ft's a bloody crime, Hen
10 And Fr
Femk Паричі it up. to squawk.
their attempt, for this
for no
JULY 7-Decoration of Chiang, KI to Lontion "Can't" is his best word. Every-
Henky Stimson and Goorge other reason. And if they serio, Shong, and Yu. Chlang was Barshall
were understandini qusly want
half an hour late. He was ̈ill, to gum the game, thin
so goddam "dimeult" that
The War Department was O.K
they
attack Kunming or ense during the performanco.. it's practically impossible. This Is
bit feel
Chungking or
or both, with up
Ave read the Chinese eltalldri The sudden emergence of ominous. If he can contemplate
divisions on either Bne and Snish mode my speech in Chinese. Jan Eastern Union of Europe. further delay now, we're sunk.
the World's Greates the matter. If we sting them Madame present, and full of her- Chan Chơng Is a joy. sponsored by Russia, is hint-
That when-
Strategist is against you.
badly enough in the air, they are
self and what she's going to get ed in a dispatch from Prague.
was an inspiration, getting him,
Unatitisfactory as the Washing almost sure to try it.
out of the President. Then the famous edit to Wash-
Sald-he If the rumour should prove ington.
Seventy thousand replacements hnd promised two tons ton conférence has been, it met "o
divisions. Chiang radliced Roose- true, it would cause neither yelt that he in Chennauit had so the wheels began to turn court of Ichang
hudurget date for new acilan, and diverted from the Yake one ne- Everybody ang ultere hour Chiang
Lost your 50 turned to stone, Ho
sat there surprise nor alarm.
bern cooking up a
per cent (of recrtits] årrived at like a groven image, and never There would be nothing | Chennailt
i must come and tellin China,
George (Marshall) that his first duty was to defend sected on the way. Can we ex-
On returning, Stilwell found their units, the rest died or de opened his trap. about. surprising, because the
lipped me off. I steggestel that the organisational Integrity of
JULY 8-Another fashioning of
Eastern he call
me, Bissell, and Cluanault
Stil-pect a better result this year? the Yake project. During
The promise of picked men for found out today that Taeng Yang Union is presumably, from in, [he] saying he was going to well's absence the Japanese had India is so much wird. 68 per fu did not know what he was Russia's point of view, a need- | anyway. Roosevelt cruised Bis-launched a drive from their Cen cent [of the replacements offer- talking about at our conference.
George told me to tral China bases on the sell off, and ed answer to the organisation
Votze hated were) nierted, mainly for tra- Hind not been to his office and of Bissell's bring one of
staff.
Then barriers of the
that choir and oftin disenso, in last had not sper, his people. Every of the five-power Western faxed Chennuult with the mat-cuard Chunging. This
thing had already been arranged. Union. It would create no adfer, and he knew nothing about here campaign
four years of college education, had terrified batch of 1,800.
as per Ho Ying-ch'in's scheme
fie might understand conditions ditional alarm, because an it. No new plan and no visit to Chungking Although it was learn.
JUNE 25-Conference with Ho. 1 My God. This truck, bustriess k Washington. So
Just en later that the campaign had Chiang
in the modern world but the pic- Eastern Union already exists
endless. We are now going t
ture wo see clearly in been a forging raid for the Jap. Ampzing: Chiong has not dis-
-10 talking In everything but name.
about Chennault's
theclissed the Combined "Chiefs of take the Chinese] War Depart- muese divisions, it had cost inantlik-to-drive-the-Japs-out-of-
him. He simply docs, not under- And ment's scheme and start at last stand. If he did, Chinese tens of thunsands of Staff proposals with Ho!
candifloris The Prague story reports Chinn
'I' artånged for
He says Llu Fel knows nothing casualties. that the federation was
would be butter, because he de prurity air travol, but
JULY 12-RED-LETTER DAY wants to do right. No one tells Ho Ying-ch'ly and Chiang about them. Obviously. "ho pre
one. He will Eastern political leaders in WILE see Chiang on Monday einfully accumulated applies of if Ho ha'f. So with whom Wid to the Combined Chiefs of Staff not listen to
With Saucy proposals. in weRink the Crimea last month. Pre- (4/19) and the thing may calm the Yoke force to support of the the G'm take counsel
but so nobotiy tells him dowit. Must be
anything In Washington general front in China: Silwell, the cook, perchance, or his old And signed. After a year of conspladsaal sident Gottwald of Czecho by end of month, as George Mar- fully aware of the general sira pul, God. Turt his own nailed him down. He is commit with Sun Yat-sen... ngs. It is things.
impossible we have, dully Fenson with his...one could įstant strügglė, slovakin, for one, is reported shalt leaves soon after.
gulation of supplies in China, in- The little art, on
but this to have visited Stalin there. (This undated paper is Generalsisted that the only alternative initiative, will decite the fate of ted, in writing, to the atlack on
Sulwell's brief summary of the to progressive starvation was to nations.
Burma. Much mystery and
What corruption, hit than to nics into a rage if any censor-
the 1013, Washington ennference reak
dre argues against him. Every- Japanese blockende: ship have surrounded this whlelt he participated.]
Rue, obstruction, delay, double- and the only way to break the
one avolds rocks 'und gets around JUNE 20-Letter [from] Hocrossing. hate, jealousy and gathering of the satellite WASHINGTON-Continual con-tecitade was to keep an equip Ying-ch'in, This is colossal. Jie skulduggery we have had to wade meah.. He does not know
kilotty problema by devious chieftains, and whether discessions have confirmed Chlung ring and training the Yoke force
asks us, to turn over to the War through. What a cesspool. ? affected Yugoslavia wus re-
K'al-shek in the opalon that all for the great campaign.
The great campaign was em-
Minister (himself) the antitank Whit Bigotry "uild ignorance and is going on. He writes orders by "the thousand," like' snowflakes te needs to do is yell and we'll
and everybody' says "yes, yes" presented is not clear..
cave in. As we are doing. F.D.R.ied in a series of proposals weapons and ammunition of the bluck ingraillide.
With Ching's acceptance and he never knows what has Stilwall had brought back, gener- force. Ho, chief of stair, would At any rate, Yugoslavia is hast deckied on an air effort in ally known as the Saxe plan. deliberately weaken the breads the plan, the Allies set up bech done. ffo, is afraid of the not among the countries men-China before we reached Washing was simply the old three-scant resources of Yoke and scal Southeast
БОУ tioned for membership in the ton. This sulled the British, who, pronged drive ints Burma, enter the proceeds in the sixth war (SEAC) for the conquest of Buz- crowd and what people will
so he tries to stop them talking. federation, which are Poland, want no phrt of a fight for Burma, bellished
Of course, it's ecausema, SÉAC's conniander our to note natazone.
but it be Lord Louis Mountbatten, Ita
This is very foolish. It is like South Burmu, and Chians has had a scare. Czechoslovakia,
-Why should they fight to build strength in Hungary,
flesnake's rattle while leaving Bulgaria and Rumanin and China, if we cati be euchred adorned with the promise of use shows their conception of pre- deputy commander weds to be
Into bearing the brunt of the war of American and British Com- porations to fight on the other Shell
The broad outlines of the cam- the paisan in his fangs. There possibly the Russian zone of against Japan? They'll get Burma mendo
Chiang after front. Words on this one;
foil on Austria. Economic co-operat-back at the peace tablu anyway. some delay accepted the Sakey not only does he fáil utterly in Jaign had been set, the bnale de- is no reason for him to foor any- cisions made. Beneath the lonel thing, Let them talk. He does Nobody was interested in the propoanis.
His ow
own duty, but beyond that le ian, probably starting with a
not need to fear the Communitie humdrum work of buililing A customs union, and co-or-
JUNE 10-Ho Ying-ch'in: "We obstructs all my efforts to build of high policy, however, the old
Kiruiggle and old frustrations | either," He should' line thêm." Chenault ground force but me.
and crowns it by try-continued. By the end of Sup thera up, dination of foreigh policy are promised to drive the Japs right don't need to widen the Burmang to take away what we have tember the friction between Stl:| dạ th
Education Is China's only hope Road.
stakes. the understood objectives. In out of Ching in six months, Burma operation will probably gave him (Chiang Kai-shek one of its periodic elfinaren
It's OK. Anyway, the
time.. EU- so painfully accumulated.
well and Chiang, was nearing rope has been working through what's the use? The Jup!
the dope (for the Burma
in- JUNDATED EXAMPLES OF his
Of his only about hity years and is he process for centuries: China godd communications; they can con vision) two weeks ago. I'm told DELAY, ETC..
answer today. Then he he'll My point was that China was centrate against us rapidly,
Working on an imported civilisa 1. 301 If
Promised
not a domestic one. Very positively in Kubming by few people know what it is among on the verge of collapse econo- we stack at Fuochan and Ledo, says, "Where's the translation?"
ail a facade to the very consider-mically. That we could not nf-by the
May 20. Potondd to Junte put. The mess of the people reach So Shang Chen and I rush back
Postponed to July, On July know only that Japan is fighting these satellite states.
fure to wait another year. That Myitkyina they will be all tired and get the paper and Shang,
back with it and unustates, and
1:200 men only was Indispensable nnri
had left Chin S The chief mystery in all the Yunan rumours... about an Eastern tlun force hind to be bulk urout, and then the Japs can do in G'mo'snys, "Well, that sounds
us, because · We will noto. But exactly how
nity a
years ago, If the Japs-took fent That
"have"any" "reserves" to "sund up. Union is not why it is being Yunnan, the recapture of Buring The first
ravy to be furnished?" The push might succeed, set up now but why the Rus would be meantigloss. That any but then the Japs would
celinportant part of this operation the navy. There is no use of sians have so long frowned increased air offensive that stung more troops to Burmu and attacking Burow unless the Boy upon the idea. Last January, the Japs enough would bring could not huld. them.
It is this in an extraordinary rebuke, strong reaction that would wreck scconti fight that would be this of Berigal is secured."
So-comes back. and tells me everything and China out of co
nd nul
astrous. What should be done is Pravda denounced Premier the war. Witness the Cheklang to have the British and Amer-and I write a letter with a long list of battleships and heavy Georgi Dimitrov of Bulgaria campaign, brought on by the Jap icons
and we cruisers and light cruisers and Japs could not get in for suggesting such a thing, bellef that Tokyo was bombed us take. Rangoon, then
aircraft carriers, and destroyers, Nine months later it is being from bases there. That the first could crush them
gelinl
ete and explain the word "ade- step was to u ground
got
that
nothing
lipe. Perhaps the
sevunih quate" for the x- force capable of
for the poAnd--goes back
third planation lies in the political holding airbases, and openingible to win, beenuse we will time to try and explain. medical sphere. Perhaps Rus communications to China from
fail with things as This is going beyond all bounds. outziile world. Overrulell. probably sia prescribes federation as the outs
They are, is typically Chinese The G'mo superciliously inquires an antidote to the Tito dis that Chine must be helped, and British "hrt Atheelens should ing our backs to help him, aup
Churchill's idea was, so naald, His naive suggestions that the what we will do, who are break- ease of defection.
the only way to do it within the take Rangoma shows How much plying everything-troops, equip next few months was by air.
with
groups.
It
tory,
actual effect, the federation why not give him the stuff to du fall, ቀን
was the short cut to vic-are on Interior lines with
will probably add nothing but able economic co-operation which
now goes on
formed.
100 SCHOOLS
te haid it
time our
troops
seizing and should be to make it
Ben
The
༄།
moves which may have im- j the commander would be up an hour in Carmel than a cycloovy God· savėti
portant repercussions.
coul!
.
much
monopoly at present held by/divisiscour Jap throwing teapots and vases at Chou Erijal has left for Yen
new
to donth
have them
cion
answer
12.
2 The
3,
Divisiony
of
fot
What
trying to stop the sound of a rat
for Kunming toll All feader, but his lack of educatlun
and have .. heel - an-acceptable.
200.men. the 135s [al Ramgar
but 65 rejected by "Chinese handicaps him under modern dectors; 30 more by U.S. concluoris. Even now there is doctors: 3d wont to Indla no potter one in sight,"
flis suc 4,500 replacements for 22hdcessor would undoubtedly be and 28th (Divisions in thalal military thun, and there is no one Promided curly lit spring. who could do any better. There By March. Not one has
180-dic some who seem capable In peared up to July
Met
Present positions, but if force
i formulate
4. Replacements
12000 Marled, Month inte, shy had to inmulto national and 70,000 diverted to Hupen, only way out is to have patience 5. Units of Y force. All to be sul niske progress zlowly."
In position by March 1 at latest. Not in yet.
حمد
6. Heavy trenchmorters for
After the war, there will be a great deal of trouble, in "Chlup. Chiang knows only what goes ou west front. 23 promised immediately around him, and the with probability of 21 more Now...July 12...none
country is so big that he will on be able to control It. Obstinsic,
intolerent, arbitrary, unreason Uhbour regiments to report able, logical, ungrateful.****** In June. Now.. July 12..
went front.
5.
origo of them...
the
The discriminating
At the same time they decided he is prepared to push the Pag-ment, planes, medical, signal, me
han operation.
tor services, setting up his 505, for on Saucy [Code ne
STILWELL-Bick again on the training his lousy troops, buck- Burma offensive] they made it
manure pile after that wonderful The Hong Kong Education practically impossible for me
trip home.
home. The worki's greatest in his chief of staff, and gen- eral staff, and her Joylan Department's plan to estab-prepare the Y force, and then anticlimax. You gave me a lish 100 Government verna ordered it used in an offensive, fect senti-off, for which I per Dictator, who starves his troops. picks fawath dil préparations But British reluctance caused yo cular schools in 20 years is the wording of the directive to am way ahead of fate.
you, Whatever happens to me and hem ond
"Better one of those far-sighted be loose"
that It
JULY 6-Still Chiang K'aj- as to what he of Cathay." The trip back was shek) does Hot answer the Presi- could do. He
the limit smooth
and uneventful,
The dent: (1) Saucy (2) Date. (3) It is intended to complete or have a plane that passed ours over the Stratemeyer. Last two are re- With Wavell In commatid, failure Bay of Biscay was shot down cent, of course...But No. 1! 50 schools in 10 years, and was inevitable, he had nothing But ours wasn't. The plane that Since June 10 and the world the same number in the to
offer
meeting-| Except landed just ahead of us at Caire burning up... that the thing was crashed. following decade. The prion Impossible, hopelest, impractical to find Chiang same as ever. This that the Reds have been to. The
But ours didn't. Back
Recent rumour Here to effectį ciple is to provide education
Churchill oviți” spoke of ") for as many as possible at the The Limeys, all wanted to place was in a diher during the can "corporate else. The He had the wind "cise" being that ho (Chiang] Ichong affair. lowest possible rate, break-walt another year. After the up in a big way, to the point of will attack them in September. ing the high priced semi- Akynt
divisions in
visitora.
Reds reported to have asked for the private schools. The scared to
The loovitable conclusion was JUNE 10, LETTER TO MRS freedom of speech and no coer- establishments would [tual Churchill has Roosavõlt, inj STILWELL You must be laught to join the Kuonut-tang. Ha,
How can fio.
the Great De- serve as models for the pri- his pocket. That they are looking ing about today's news. thai mocrat,
wer that? This vale schools and enable the for an easy way, in short cut Wavell is to be pushed upstaids whole thing seems far?ételied, Department to close those, for England and nd attention and the Auk [General Sir Claude less he is deliberately setting up which did not conform strict-must be diverted from the Cop- Auchinleck].replace hima.stop on Soucy). He fuquite tentat any cunt. The Litness they givà the Auk a free hard capable of doing it and reporting ly to the regulafloris.
are set interested" in "the war in and real authority, things will that he is too involved against Aware of the necessity for the Pacific, and with the Pros look
the Reds to join the party in providing many extra teach sident hypnotized ther the sitting Now 22rt. What stopped Burm ers. the sponsors of the plan pretty
me I 'don't remember. We are will extend the Rural Train-
Wouldn't
in
JULY 6-Copference with doldrums waiting for. a the speak my plece. I interruple "brain" to function. It's hell to Trang-Yang-fu (nihlater/of com- Ing College, and a site has twice, but Churchill kept pulling be plumped back into this cesse munications); Kehloss Metdm- already been earmarked for away from the subject, and it pool affor having had a breath of mon, Edwords, dia 1. We're ask-
model village to house was impossible.
fresh ait. There is no change in ing thela bastards to Bupply a staff, students and familles. So everthing was thrown to the high command and the lousy 1,290 broken-down trucks the air offensive. F.DR: pulled wrestling match chlinilies, I've for, their own darnu army and we A policy of gradually increas- 7,000 tons (monthly over the got to pin a medal on Chiang and stand ready with: 32,000 on the ing the responsibility of the Hump] dit di the Ulf When told it will make me want to throw other side. And will, they do |local staff will be followed, that~10,000 was imposiible, and up.
they won't They'll progressively eliminating ortiered that tötuntiga, lot. July, Europcán, teachers, First 4,100 [tons] for dit (Four- JUNE 11-Yu Ta-wel worried (study and mine lange
It this scheme is fully aid about raw fiatoriais, Total: sldgrands propose tourway of] calibre bul shiifik, und Fiddbarirom the troops conscientioully carried our developed as a great and quantity
falaj left in debak 40 million and hire of comercial;fete, elde it can ensure both the great busy cnifepot,, let it Bow (10 million used at Ichang) Bui the money to run them? | Oli, er well being of the Chinese give greater attention to the without raw material, arsenals, that's kim nan (uleuit), "Gch- bopulation and the security welfare of the anajority of wall close downs, Crisis, Ibi erat: Satwall must convince of Britain's tanule » in ^lha tile Humble velliant VECKA (November's unless we can bring Generalis Colony in an gc.. chaos the widespread mililant dis threaten Chiangtwill-respond to
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