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SEPTEMBER 21-Dinuer THE SIXTEENTH INSTALMENT

|Chiang: K'al-shek's. They stood

us up for ten days after the G'mo

not back from the northwest.

Luckily, we had had a

nry

discussion

with Ho

off in India

we

and when business came pollslied

it In ten minutes.

trahing approved. Reinforcements

Everything [or

plan

for Ramgarh O.K. We can pick

jour men.

100.

That's the way it

Rots-You worry yourself sick

for weeks, and struggle around,

Was

of the National Government out. Several other casunities, --and the sharply developing

with John Llu. It looks

8

try him on the 30-division and see how that works.

DON

The Stilwell Papers

wanteri me

north

IDDON'S

1

DIARY

of

sen.

Fuss over getting Willkle into

Ceorge Marshall about Three De- SEPTEMBER 20-Radio from mands. Asks for recommenda-

ปี

Worked at it.

apparently went over.

can

be

it.

my con

One

you

Business Manager: W. H. Nolloth and then suddenly it all crystal- lizes in a moment. The thing that

Dogs gome~! 10 be s'on the

no In political matters, the Tallor, paving is pao kung ferushed Hold Chiang Kai-shek

of staff again. If H. H. K'ung, although the G'mo stone]. Stone masons get $20 or photographs Lot Ramgarh). That chang (chlet

briliant idea he could told him what I wanted done and tas taken over his job in the $25 a day (maybe). Contractors was a actually see

see what was going on. gave him a letter of instructions. Executive Yuan and made him underpay their help, steal trees,

up the way we msistant. The handling of or buy them at low prices, Lo I wonder if he'll remember g Reporters & General Office 32312 Apparently, he was much pleased which ties him

have dough is cut and dried and pure-pai sing [the common people]

when I turn up with my' white with It. Why shouldn't he be, the win!...Also told him ra

routine. ("Purely" 19 nol very dissatisfied. They desert heard and a erick in my back? itle jackas? We are doing our une officers for the staff myself, y

can't xactly the word.)

droves: why not, if they Blow No. 1.

have distinctive For damnedest to help him, and hê,

confidentin secretarial it? The round in condemneiterips__1

sent! I've heard of Reteráls" How No. 2 was the pay. He werk, paymaster, to visiting fire- ; my $5,000 ₫ mou (170 of an serel; whe stink. H.K.$18.00 makes his approval took like a tremenus conec sint, This atti-

or market value is $4,000 to put the 450,000 men of their "expenses,'

I'm keeping one eye (the only H.K.$36.00 tide its offer, u alte rupees in his hand. When honing of personnel, etc., o Yao-$3.00. No arrangement yet for

being wineked and double-crosse und he'd have to account for it, ist

rating payment says the top) peeled for a radio telling me of Nunce's acquisition. ΑΙ For military affairs, the Block-ging must be knocking down has sure been educating the Faci- H. 372.00 endlessly, to finally get the

sigual elves such a feeling of re- squirmed and tried out the

read "Chinese method"

(lumping Block flo Ying-ch'in] Not lot of Jack. lief that you are almost grateful payment to commanding gen-ly the lecal Stimson, but also

e const in the art of painting. I hope the boobs loosen up to the very guy you are trying to, crch). But I sold I was a by-hend of Chun cheng pu (Doard China.

enough to buy, instead of just hulp. In spite of himself. We got stunder; if he, Lo, wanted any of Administration] which con- an O.K. m the CNAC contract, change, he could get the Chinese trols the transport bourd. Mili

saying. "How delicate"

My letters must be dull a the pooling of parts, both pursuit, eveniment to confer with the tary education and ability, a joke,

dishwater. I could pep them up

| GAVIN=0}; October 14, 1948, at

but it would just bé à field day and trasport, and the Ramgarh British. Now he'll have to sub- and st, very susceptible to clever

fe the censor. Of course, I was St. Paul's Hospital, dean. heresse. We united him to the, mit a statement of strength by suggestion. He gets it from the Chun ling pu Bureau of Mili- wife of Max Gremaugh-statement, that all transports must grade.

SEPTEMBER 27--Rainy, Pam. P.epared for many things out It we hadn't had this talktary Operations]-not from the be used exclusively for he prose

fre the manner of doing busl- Waveit says OK, mà in- cution of the war.

there would have been one hell

TIL chang (bury chief). Hsu nap.

vrouse in Chinese troops at es, the Intrigue, the obstacles. For the first time carried on of a mess down there. He would Yung-ch'ung, who is pretty much

But when you really get behind Hamgarh. on command, and or a figurehend, but from Liu Fel, a conversation with the G-mo in hove insisted

Detter news at Stalingrad. the scenes, It's still a shock, if Chinese without any help.

pushed out orders, and generally our garbage

There seems to be mon Adools, who

At last, Answe [from Wash you get me. relsed hell.

needs a haircut. This guy wields

sington] to Three Demands real- a little progress, which you will SEPTEMBER 22--Picted with Busy with Lo and forgot Hebig influence; he is the ne plus et down. 265 combat planes, 100 see publicised in the Stutes pret-

An hour late for ultra of the Chinese military transports. No ground

can develop the soon. I troops, papers. Nap. Lo's dinner. About Ying-ch'in). The speech of the Gener-twenty-five, Wine flowed freely. the bull session. Item to tells mind"-the analyst par excel- Turage to be built up to 6,000 den further, something may come

He Inakes inaction as me there are only 3,000 Jups Irlence, emerged

Anyway, I've done Tonk alissimo designed to

when. arrestullington

as, and

"Appreciate conclusively Dorn and Hanoi French Indo-China] and virtue by proving

your co-operation." "Will assist damnedest and that's all I the deterioration in prestige champion drinker.

of there. And t

Impossibility Heinrich none

nction; Kamgarh." "Ironride" sigo out.

It amounts to de- do, win or lose. never enters his fat heact to go nilitory ascetic. But he producen nothing more than at present, Everybody is well here. down there and get them. He is the kind of stuff they love (point, Suppose I am to kid them into or two want to go where they think the show is a more specta- over the chief of staff of the Chinese line, 'aren) and he worka 24 hours organising the Army. flight from the gold yunn SEPTEMBER 23-Went

cular one. They

I' was frankly disappointing.the Chib Hui pu (Ramgarh setup: my, and yet a golden oppor-a day at 11. A one, two, three,

unity like that is passed up. four boy. Everything ticketed. [Forces for the] Burma offen- get along with the deck-hands One may agree or not agree Letter of instructions for Lo 80 sticking his long nose into our tions, and mistakes of fact, and fachtbent, the Tenth Air Force makes

tricky. But he gives lots of thought to fivery thing full of false assump- sive will be the Ramgarh De- who stick and see it through. It with much that appears in

an-interesting study of the diaries that go to make up to tie him up. Office. Back in business and asking for details | twisted viewpoints, bul so assur- the Yunnan mob, and a "limited human naturis

pm. Double-hender movie.

detachment." In other the Stilwell Papers, but it is

The heat is over. We'll be Swallow your pride and persist, on tonnage, etc., carrled by oured as to cover the contradictions Briush

planes. If he would put ten per and absurdities, Не overawes words, what we've got. How wearing wool in a few days. The impossible to overlook the My going to Ho Ying-ch'in scent of his attention on his own the Big Boys, who won't take very generous. Oh, yes, a Buy winter weather here is Althy-- consistency with which borne fruit on several points. I'll rotten machine, he'd make some the time to do the pick and shovel from Operations will come out rain, fog, thud, and slime con-

plan progress.

work. A hell of a bad influence, and how us how to do it.

tinuously. Better than the terri- "Vinegar Joe' insists that the

His colleague, Lin Wel, has been

ble muggy heat of the past few Generalissimo was not kept

Idea. Why not use their own sent to the bushes, and he reigns SEPTEMBER 28-This may be nonthr. accurately informed of what SEPTEMBER 24-Talk with Le tagthods on them?

alone.

red-letter day. Went to see We mude Dorn a full colonel and Jucky We did. was going on, by those sur-Cho-ying

But whom shall we work on?

Tonight. Bergin called us, to at- Ho Ying-ch'in this afternoon and nor Li of the Let's go over the possibilities, No SEPTEMBER 25-(A Chinese put the bee on him about the 30-tention at dinner, read out the rounding him, and allied with Neither Yong

Chinese General Staff) had told use fooling with small spuds, friend) back from Yang Kal division plan. “Just [to] justify order, pinned an eagle on him. that a stubborn trend of

him anything. What л

sta. Where is the influence? The Caunt graft and corruption. Each shipments." "War Department aware him in, and then kissed mind which excluded un- [They were] afraid to get him a court at Chungking is the milieu of

seven hslen (countica) asking questions." "Embarrassed him. I put the other eagle on His latest copy of the [Ramgarh] staff or outside, though pleasant truths.

trusted, the furnishes 3,000 workers. Actual how to 0115wer,"

"American him after sticking it into his speech does not suggest that canisation because he turns out boys have no hand in making ly about half show up. Each psychology-help those who make shoulder. Sort of surprised him.

節 the big decision. Hu Tsung-nan, man works a month and is then a fight out of it." "If China gets Just go along the way the passing of a few years to be No. 2 [under Stilwell

in chief). commander

Maybe

ybe Chu Shao-ilang, etc.

etc. has provided a remedy for waiting

released. They get (presumably) busy, we can have anything: if have been and you'll break all to get him committed trusted executives, but they don't $5 a day (about a pound of rice). not. they'll shut down on us." ta get

records. these defects. Even while flo

and (Chiang Kai-shek gave a bonus Weil, cinch hand the assignment

daily busincas

it and

LETTER TO BEN That was a Who does? For of $50 each about 15,000 of He'll see me again on Wednesday, serund letter you wrote me: if admitting the gravity of the their own jobs. Anyway, he didn't make the plans.

(Ad- | them.) · Ench worker gets at the (Time to make some arrange= | you don't turn out to be a snake the most recent develop know this subordinate position information, Handlebars,

suggested help in sharmer or a landscape gardener, ments in the military situa- and when he read it, the effer- miral Yang, moustached Chief stort (maybe) $70-for a hat and ments.)

of shelter training.

Ming units) up to ynu might try being an author. ' vescence went right out of him. of Intelligence) of course. Fully raincoat (340), use tion, President Chiang as-

($20), medicines ($10). All strength, concentration in groups, "Uncle Ben's column" in the He was counting on the old by- trusted and supreme in his line. cribed the -chief blame to

rauipment, etc..

"ewspapers ought to go big.? Yod Then I got a look beneath the could tell all the dumbbells in the "the adverse psychological

curtain. The Central Govern- U.S.and there are a lot them i effects of Communist pro-

can't be too tren with the troops many things about birds and paganda" and to the result-

under the Chan Chu's, but they bugs and fish and snakes that have 10 chun formies] of their hey never knew, Natural His- ing Indifference and carping

own. These attitude of the general public

pushed tory for morons who dont take around, at will, and will, and ar time to see what they are look- and legislators. Nothing

undoubtedly the unlis that willing at." "How to keep African be on the 30-division list.

So Grass whatever did he say of the

from Inundating the Home." that's promising once we get crave mistakes and the in-

The showmanship, in start on this, they can hardly

It must have been great fun Success and confidence ride the sing, untangling operation In the capital. efficiency of the military and

nation's history....

the Hollywood tradition, was ex-stop, especially with the Ham- getting under the water and civil administrations.

Dewey victory special.

experiment going "An Administration made up ellent, Searchlights ranged the nh

well. swimming around epcoring fish. On

Also aboard the campaign traini the economic level, exactly the

same criticism are 98 tired, swenting newspaper-of men and women whose love of sky, bands played, and there were (Maybe it will pay to swallow But kind of tricky. I'm afrald ghost country comes ahead of every floor shows before and after the ing pride and swap horses, but 1 T'd spear myself as often on T don't care how we do it, just so did the fish. And If I get home campaign oratory. lies open.

Chiang Kai-shek, 43. aides, advisers,

writers, and typists, two doctors, other consideration."

But few of the big stars turned we arrive.) and unnumbered

with a wooden leg, I'd have All this in safe stuff, palatable six defectives, complained of false news-

hell of a time_submerging. On paper reporting and exag- squads of iccal politicians, judges, enough. The main theme always out to boost the chances of either

will be ameiant, candidate or grab a little publicity SEPTEMBER 20,-LETTER TO | second thought I'll stay on the MRS. STILWELL Just rereading, beach and you can go out and gerations of the seriousness mayors, magistrates, friends, and is that Dewey

ultra-efficient; that he will pui for themselves.

the Feast of Letters. Boy did I Ret the fsh. I can remember of economic developments, In the last of the 17. old-he Government on fawless unli-

Ret some letters. I've read it all when I was 18—oh yes, I' can- especially

young bearings and sce that

jhree or four times already and and I thought I was pretty hot. pressure

accom-without a jar, jolt, or breakdown.

it helps greatly to offer the The principal did too; he thought Russia, of course, has been rency.

Mr. Ben Hecht's cutburst on the nanure pile. Letters postmark- I was hot enough to fre. warned by Dewey, a powerfully death of Count Bernadette has ed in May and from then on into armed America pledged, and the made Hollywood flush with anger August. I envied Ben's experi- SEPTEMBER 30-Fixed Octo- United Nations promised every and shame. Studio heads preference at La Jolla spearing fish. ver 21 to begin move to Dinjon. a buving rush and that he

support. The trip, now nine days old, kj The fact that Dewey has said not to discuss the extraordinary. The African grass seems to have Indientions of British obstruc- had found the city perfectly

don't to tadlo to George Maṛaball making more headlines and im-luttle or nothing about Anto statement of Hecht that Count; gotten out of control. Obviously

was Bernadotte normal.

053 not, knew what you can do about it about it. Radio to Sibert to pression than President Truman's American partnership need not

of worthy So fine a death."

e..cept cut tunnels Generalissimo's

through it make another official request on again the

angry journey across the country worry us. He accepts it Frate

A Pictures he helps to write are when it gets little higner.] Wavell. entourage has

been careful Mr. Dewey is doing so well that fully, much as he does the rise of

being sent still

Britain, and Every time I see a picture to to conceal from him the he appears to have the election his own sensational star. He has true facts, for thoroughly neatly wrapped up and resting shed his Isolationis completely, you are paying out your shillings Garry, I think, "That lovely "Dog,"

10 sec them and line Hecht's Privately he has said the United

don't 201 xay you dependable and independent snugly in his pocket.

No one is calling Dewey

the States and the British Common pockels. Well, reports from Peiping show Boy Scout or Buster on this trip wealth stand or fall together, and haven't been warned. conclusively that the food He is the brain and the bus, he intends they shall stand,

The latest outburzi fanuticlam has not yet affected; stuffs situation in Peiping is calm, unruffled, completely polsed, Whichever way we look at it the, British film come-back here. extremely serious and quite and almost too perfect.

the same of the latest figures are, in sufficient to cause the gravest before large audiences in Des the Presidency and it looks like which first opened in the United

He has spoken and triumphed Dewey campaign tour. If he wins, comforting. "Henry V. discontent. In this connec moines, Denver, Albuquerque, a certainty-Britain will have no States in April 184f, has so far tion, the revelation of con- Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Sun reason to complain. We could do grossed over $3,000,000 In thei ditions in Tainantu prior to Francisco, and there are a lot with a little efficiency ourselves. U.S. and Canada.. Net profit, after the fall of the capital elty of more orations to come. Shantung, as outlined by the Chairman of the City Coun- cil. Pel Ming-yu, who suc-

has departed. Invariably he has New Yorkers have had theirness, although the first batch of ceeded in escaping to Tsing-registered belter.

All of speeches this week and are plays along Broadway has been While the President has mis-suffering from indigestion. Tru- appallingly inept. No winner even tao, are highly significant.

131 the cluss Pei Ming-yu attributed the cast himself in the role of flesh-man and Dewey have been a large remotely

"Harvey."

"Mic. creeper and prophet of doom enough moal, but there have also "Oklahoma.” fall of Tsinanfu to the poor ("Woe to Wall-street's

Roberts," Marshall and gluttons of

Vishinsky.

and "Street-car Named [been morale of the officers and privilege"), Tom Dewey has pro-

Vishinsky who has given Desire" has made its bow.

There is no re Strutting sex-appeal is whit men of the garrison and he mised peace, prosperity, pensions, them heartburn,

most of the customers want. any claimed that several high- and unwavering hostility to sin, signed belief that the world

entangled in a horror and pante- the cashlers. Esther Williams, ranking Army and Air Force vice, evil, and depression.

What is Dewey telling America? web, and the only way out ulti- Dorethy Lamour, Betty Grable, officers were in communica-He is promising it "a foreign mately will be to singhs and de- and Rita Hayworth are sure-Bre

the Communists policy based on the tion with

where dramatie Arm belief

octresses àre pic story the web with a sword.

to damp squity. You can expect a and that members of the that we can have peace... Gov

The Big Three's decision teamwork, with garrison were actually known ernment

qualified place the Berlin asus before the procession of assembly-line song to have been

selling for their positions and given fed United Nations Security Council and dance flims.

is backed here by all except Charles Chaplin says he will Nationalist supplies to the responsiblilty to do their jobs Henry Wallace and his dwindling never play the beloved tramp Communists. Such state without loose talk, factional quar-fcrowd. Many would like to see again. "I am different now.

could no longer feel like ments as these must, neces-relling, or appeals to group preju-stronger moves.

The otherwise harassed people shabby little man who turned on Car weather; in elegant fashions--- Birmingham's Madeleine o form that they will be that will carry out in Washington natural shoulders, clinging dress-roll appears on an American stage nore readily believed than the biggest unravelling, unsnarl-es, jackets with flaring backs, for the first time in "Good-byn,

trim, tiny hats, and rich Scoich

My Fa disproved. Too much terri

tweeds; in the officlut forecast that ing in aim of the

Rovemb tory has been lost in precise-

The For the with the greater part of the boom and high wages are to

In Olympic Games is being adver y the same way. Nationalist High Command, China to the North of the continue throughout 1949; the Red attack has come al Yangtse. Not all of this can the impetus given to international tised lavishly here, but in none boxing by the victory of the of the advertisements I have seen

Marcel Frenchman White Cleaner ways, so it is suggested as a be ascribed to the pscholo-handsome

there any mention that it is In tube complete surprice, and when gical effects of Communist Cerdan, and in the start of the a-British production

Cowboy pictures are so popular nid is ventured, it has been propaganda." "On the con-football season.

Hollywood has taken a long, that the best advice to an actor too little and too late. Most trary, it is due mostly to the

but not observerein China are al- administrative ineptitude and and Governor Devices human just now is "Go Western, youtu ready resigned to the com- incompetence of so many of got very excited about either: Footnot: Whoever lose the Both men have held big rallies American Presidential election, plete loss of Manchuria to the National. Government

In Log Angeles, the world's fim Stalin.can't win. the Communists together leaders.

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