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JULY 14-LETTER TO MR, THE TWENTY-SECOND 1 INSTALMENT

STILWELL This last time up! pinned a" medal on Chiang and you can Imagine my feelings. It was very formal and I read him the citation in Chinese and then made

a few remarks to him, also In Chinese, about the meaning and importance of the decoration. He was seated and not at all of case. When I grabbed his coal and pinned it on, he jumped në was going to

If he was afraid "I

stab him. On July 12 Ĩ pässed

a milestone. Got a decision In writing which eases my worries and responsibility no end.

other things

on

look

at least it was a change and the tres were grand. Spruce, pine, THE WEN CASE This moun faced Brigadier General

Wen.

The Stilwell Papers

'em

orders

lieved

1 Colonel relieved

Chinese 1 Brigadier General re-

lieved.

divisions

аге

for

more

action.

nd

[The Chineso The over my signature for the Ch'ing, date is pretty sad. The CNACOND THIRTY.

Ilke were to made them look

concentrate 30 tuck is now passed and the boys Ten Pal Jth Chang. Asked in lar

divisions in East Chino, near can no longer block me out with my name for relief of Wu Ch'ut amtteurs.

LEDO BASE The roads in the Kweilin, to be known as the Z Impunity. It's a grand feeling thang and suppressed answer to

base are good, but the [Ledo] force; It was to be a training com say anything I pleased and go after a solid year of struggle, { cover the move."

which would Somehow or

road liselt has been standing still, mand

ultimately So I tied can to him. Re- "General" Arrowsmith commands become a tactical command simi- away secure in my own mind! better all around. Maybe wo'll loved him us deputy chief of

crowd of Yes-men, from his chateau, Glenn is in get out of the sewer after all.

the lar to the Y force at Kunming.1 that the made him Kao-chi hospital, York is out on location, That commits them to (the parasites, idolaters, and syco- JUNDATED. General Stilwell staff and

Ta'an-mow. (Staff officer) This July 14 and co- flew

scheine. and God knows India

40 phants around him could not who is running training

Subject mained there till September 1 is a Chinese ta tzu (method) for flic road. get York and talked change, of course, but what a break it down. How could they, His following notes

easing

But quietly.

The

to him and then sent Wheeler a summarise whole chih hui pu (command] tot radio. Arrowsmith is a sulky, ago, when we were wallowing

struggle that has been. A year if it was true?

In After 'Inding that I would not the stay of six weeks.]

tickled 10 death. 10

They UNDATED) KASHMIR: LET-Was

indiferent bird, who can't see the mire, it wouldn't have seem-obey his alightest wish, like the TER TO MRS. STILWELL Suck threw their hats up and cheered that this is the chance of a life-nd possible. If the Japa let us crowd he was accustomed to, he tried to reduce my importance eff to Kashmir for three days, Wen came over and squawked time. You wouldn't catch him alone, we may put it over.

and pleaded. When Bergin ask-

No, 4,600 feet up in the hills from cd him for the missing radios, he's the Big Shot at

out in the mud, pushing.

Victory AGAIN. Radio from and prestige by ignoring me and

on the base, George Marshall the "Vale.” What a bust. Kashmir

US com- unything I was connected with, I then got

So-and-bat) units for "Stepchild,”

army. It is directing. "Where is

"Only Including his own is overadvertised, of course: the he just blubbered. Jhelum is full of mud, the house-out in order about the digits of 30?" "Oh, he's my section en- 3,080 but the entering wedigo, do this, but I believe it an add- hard to imagine that he would ro the Chinese officer's commission gineer in charge of ronds in the Can we use them! And how! Storal busts are fammed in like Coney and some other crap, telling one base," etc., etc. Wheeler at once SEPTERBER 4-The Chung-ed reason to two others that tributes In their recent Island cottages, the place is dirty and all that they had better get vanked Arrowsmith to Delhi and ki military spokesman" comes mainly actuated him: (1) that it

and full of flies. Gulmarg Limey attempt to reproduce the down to business and stop all this

proposes to use Strong. I don't out with a lot of crap. "The would be risky to have an em- __| ncntense, Polo, homeside touch.

know. At any rate, he'll be bet Jups have put three and a half clent trained unit under the com- tennis,

Got Ayers going On motor

ter than Arrowsmith.

Info Burma recently, mund of a possible rival, and (2) dancing, golf, and tea. Dress for

he is turning up SCORE: transport and dinner and keep up the jelly old sorts of mismanagement, Ile's

and are feverishly preparing for that his policy is to suck in U.S.. U.S. 1 Brigadier General re- the Allied counterattack.” The air power and sit back while they prestige. It rained all the time

Japa have put 100,000 men into fight his war. was generally miserable, but raving inspector, with

to nose in everywhere.

French Indo-China," etc.,

This

The continued delay and ob- Threw, Colonel-and la murre To the extent that it means

irt friend out.

a Colonels bawled out looks like an inspired statement struction in getting, training done She to Karach),

1 Brigadier General to give the G'mo an out in the must have been due to his fear

coming bawled out.

of a challenge to his authority, pressure that the Colony of Hong, ele.

he to Calcutta. He had to make a display of his love affairs, Kong is to be governed a

We as well as to his belief that air **They

100 strong."

power is decisive and there is little more from Hong Kong deputy chief of staff at Ramgarh, Al Chabua the mess is gradual-

haven't the weapons," "What we

The no Commander need is planes," etc., etc.

ure putting any time on and a little less from White- a big ideas. A graduate of ly straightening out. Alexander

ground troops. Otherwise, he bawled out

same old crap. hall, the official announce Leavenworth, get rich quick is mired in, but struggling. The

East Asla Com-

could not complacently take the AUGUST The course. Always concerned with overpromoted air corps is sunk

N.B. When I started in over terrible risk of leaving his army ment that control by H.M. the Big Picture. Utterly ignor- when it comes to administration mand is set up. Ladia, Burn here, I said to myself that the in its deplorable condition and Treasury over the Colony's ant of basic requirements. Al-ant management. Just a bunch Singapore, Malaya, Sumateo, and finances has now been re-ways writing long reports. "It's of serial chauffeurs, Bawled out Ceylon, with Lord Louis Mount-only safe policy for a deck-band his Southern frontier open to an of my calibre was to go straight attack which would be fatal to tear batten at the top. I am deputy moved will give

general pretty good, but we must make —; he had let the contractor and have to kid the G'mo into down the middle of the road. China and to him. The only

Crazy out brick walks, Just laid, to get and

With a one-track mind, I couldn't other possible reason' is that he satisfaction and contribute to it perfect" kind-of-stuff.

But George about Antiaircraft and some slight increase in our Antitank and Chemical Warricks for new buildings! Alex- using the boys.

ander

and 750S

In command afford to get away from the main really thought the Army was in 3,000 men

780 leaving me

all objective and try to pick daisles: excellent shape and only in need troops, air And feeling of self-respect. Not Service detachments in all unite, pilots and still they can't get go- U.S.

ground.

***There could be no attempted of weapons to make it formidable. setup is a Chi- short cuts by playing that Whitehall's present de- [from] battalions up. Smart guy ing. The C-40 is full of bugs. The command

politicsIt is

It is hard to imagine a military of Americans Carburetor lees

We have nest puzzle, with Wavell, Sut with Bly criticisms cision goes very far.

methods. Took lost six over the Hump and the Auk [Auchinleck], Mountbatten, my throat would have been cut man as dumbs as this, but he ap stituted for control is what and American

Chiang

Alexander and me inter on the first detour. I had to be peared convinced in 1942 before ron, boys' morale is lower and lower. Chla Cheng Tung-kuo, that moron,

the Burma campaign the Secretary of State des

under his wing and figured on John Davies was in one, with a woven and mixed beyond re- plain John Doe and live like a

goldfish. In that way, I could Fifth and Sixth Armies were the unday

"Stepchild" will cribes as consultation, with moving

right

on us. very mediocre crew, and had to cognition.

How concentrate on what was ahead flower of his troops. The 58th the Army jump out in Naga country. They put on but late, probably.

and would not have, to worry Division, the 90th, the N28th, the passing of the power of Kept agitating for

Well,

Alexander ever, they are coming to iter about the lies I had told the day N20th, 93rd. Kan Li-ch'u! he went too were lucky. Now supervision from the Trea- special units.

A scr.sc on tonnage for ground

before.

Yu-ming! Yu Fel-p'eng My sury to the Colonial Office. } far. Put four Wens Le.. his own thinks the C-87 is the thing troops, and the air will have to men] in various jobs without re- while back only the C-48 would

It was a good policy. I never God. Louis will have had to worry about the spics that The approval of the Secreference to Bergin. Threw Lin do. And the DC-3 was no good step down, tary of State is still required Wen-shih in the clink for a at all. As a matter of fact, it has mixed staff with Wedemeyer on Tai Li and the Kuomintang put completely [may] be good prac- personal slight. Put a the best record over the Hump. our side. It looks like business in my house, even when I caught tice, but, I doubt it. Over a fancied

a half, I them going through my papers. period of Rubber heels and a quick, unex-submitted memos and studles on

to various subjects him. pected return did the trick. never had to worry as to what never deigned to discuss any of to tell the G-me. I could see his them. It was impossible to argue "advloers" chewing their nails with him. He would simply pass and shivering, and laugh at it. down the decision-always "No." All I had for him was the truth, | Aud that ended it. The

All-

Ideas

has

up.

1 Army

he

about 3,400 tons. July now. George has read the riot Wen in radio room and suppress- June,

They act to T. V. and maybe Chlang, ed radios. Asked for ten Military 4,500 tons. August...77 Academy graduates for the staff were to hit 7,000 in July and 10 will come across. without reference to me or to 000 in September, The Air SEPTEMBER 2-CHUNGKING

Recommended himself Transport Command record to Victory! Gol the list of the SEC Bergin,

for every detail of importance in the financial sphere: insists on being kept fully in- formed every three months of the general financial posi- tion, and H.M. Treasury is still to be brought into dis- cussions on all important matlers affecting long Kong's finances.

The Purge Of The Publicans

And

Sinners

do

I

that the

Tu

To ignore your chief of staff

a year and

Ho

pleasant or unpleasant, as the Wise had decided. Finish. He case might be. It frequently must have thought me a queer made him mad as hell, and for bird to stick along on these con- a long time he must have been ditions. But I had my mission The general impression

suspicious because was the only

gradually, painfully, and might very well be that the

one he was getting it from. And Blowly I got fasthold that ho effect of the proposed new

there must have been a lot of couldn't shake. American eff- arrangements is to provide u

of people telling him. I was a liar. ciency, sincerity, and honesty be Hackles gre rising, tempers various civil disabilities. Cruel- Nothing new in the way

do gan to be proven' and respect distinction between methods

fraying and recriminations dying lest of all, her registration, which principio was involved but one It was necessary for them

began to our methods was made.

was getting after us and without

considerable once more on the subject of the was compulsory, was permanent. advance

With the Ro, because any

things 13 false reports,

spread through the Chinese difference in the ultimate perennial best-seller in public that name was never erased and establishment of organised police such

Army. A small group of Chi- Case

permanent result. Against the hard test argument, "The

the consequently remained under an forces a

regulating cowardice, neglect of duty, smug- Arm

slealing, and similar irre- nese officers of character réalised indelible stain.

body was found to which to en-

gularities, And -1 could prove the chance we were offering of of practical efficiency, the Common Prostitute."

This time the fre of dispute With the success of their var trust the control of prostitution.

Army and kept system still appears to in-

This laid the foundation for the enough of them to convince him revitalising the has been fed by the enforced ous territorial invasions, however, volve considerable delays in exodus from the night haunts of the Romans became lax in the present systematic procedure in that in those cases, at least, it telling me to hang on, be patient, and for God's sake not quit. the making of decisions-and Kowloon of the girls-the pre- maintenance of their regulations most parts of the world-a pro-was true,

The G-mo thought that by [This paper unfinkhed.] / ipso facto, gatting-on-with sumably unchaste _but_not_unat- and a more or less open season cedure coupled with a general

cuters for was called on the pursuit of determination-to-put-the-subject making me his joint chief of staff tractive band which

SEPTEMBER 7-Colonel Ch'en the job without offering

the whims of the profligate anci; pinasure. This was followed, in out of sight and ignore it as far would accept without question

He has been figuring tonnage. any order he chose to give me. anything resembling protec-

some claim, the

the needs of the natural sequence, by the impost-us possible.

In the Western world today He could never understand that says, "You know there are times tion against such extra- normal male, who has no other tion of even more stringent re- there are two main differences had another status as US re- when a 3-ton truck weighs as vagances as are represented outlet for a primeval, though, not gulations on prostitutes.

a 20-ton tank," "If these laws had any effect in the treatment of prostitution presentative on councils, another much as in Leighton Hill mansions, primarily evil, urge.

the several countries. The as commanding general of US bird is the executive for the war Brought about in the immediate at all," states the Encyclopedia in

Lend-Lease minister, McCammon said, "Now, Involved still is a consider-

instance by a recent amendment Britannica, "It was to promote first is the Bleensed house which troops, another as

If you have a 2,000-pound cow, able amount of additional to the licensing laws of the the general prevalence of im- generally exists on the Continent watchdog.

It made him road as hell to find and she stands on one foot on a paper work for the benefit Colony, the cause of the present morality; they certainly did not but not in Great Britain or her

United that I would not simply pass out bridge, how of Kowloon's hotels diminish prostitution. of the Secretary of State, and clearance

Lend-Lease stuff on his order, weigh?" Ch'en's con he traced (ligney of Imperial Rome hos The second is in the registra- and that I would stand between she would weigh 300 pounds. apparently a profound dis- and restaurants

back to 1847. A provision of the never been surpassed for gross tion and examination of pro-him and the abuse of US troops. (Calculations for a troop move- trust of the Hong Kong ad- legislation of Great Britain at and obscene sensuality."

stitutes which naturally tends to He might get sore, but he could ment.) ministration's capacity for that time was adopted in the Under Christianity Romo took} accompany the existence of get nothing on me, and that was sensible management, a dis- Licensing Act of 1872. It made a distinctly more charitable view licensed houses. The place of this a comforting thought. I could. (To Be Continued) trust which bears a strange an offence for publicans to al- of prostitution. The Church was in Great Britain and the United low "common prostitutes to as- not severe with prostitutes, to States is taken by the venereal appearance alongside the semble and continue" in licensed whom the altar was open upon clinks Instituted to protect the avowed intention of granting

premises..

repentance. Some of the fathers public health. In the long run to the residents of this Though that rather takes the expilcitly recognised the trade as this does a better job as the vast Colony a greater measure of control over their own and bother it is as nothing com- St. Augustine,

we do pared with the great antiquity of world, who saw that its suppres that where licensed houses exist Jaffairs. There are, not doubt, a number of Gov_/ the basic subject—that of pro-; slan would stimulate more des- they hold only a'sinalt proportion

tructive forms of immorality.

course,

The pro-

Dominions or in the States.

novelty out of the current fuss necessary evil Among them was size of modern cities

a man of the clandestine prostitution 'so

stitution itself.

At the

outset

we can

very

A

Regulation

Thoughout the middle

make

Qasv

Genuine

of the total number of women engaged in the trade.-R.D.

HEYDRICH WIDOW SENTENCED

widow

She was sentenced in her ab- sence.

WAG 18838-

all

who per- Jernment servants

It would be extremely difficult. ceive distinct advantages in and not a little pointless, to try Whitehall's amiable interest and extablish the first case of

what

the Enr

Encyclopedia Britannica in all the trivialities of local calls promiscuous unchastity for prostitution Dourished everywhere. government. In every walk gain." However, of life is there to be found easily go back to the time of Ant was not merely tolerated, but London as well as most of people of this kind, who ex-'cient Rome, when the trade was licensed and regulated by law in

Prague, October 21. pect conditions to be made many a long day past its infancy. Europe. The earliest known re-

The People Court in Prague to- Yellow Wig gulations directed against the day pronounced sentence of life casy for them, but who spend

with Romans spread of venereal disease imprisonment the

had labouri much of their time evading to harm for the prostitute peared in a London act of 1181. on Margareto Heydrich, responsibility, passing the She had to

It was not until the end of the of the former Hitlerite "protector" wear distinctive

15th century that the true menace of Bohemia and Moravia. buck in easy parlance. No dress, dyo her hair or wear

to thing could be safer, of yellow wig and was subject to of venereal disease appears have been fully appreciated.

It than getting the

can only be assumed that its pre-

her The charge against Secretary of State's stamp of among those who feel that valence increased greatly at that that, when Heydrich was approval on every commit Hong Kong is quite capable time, though for what reason it sinated she demanded that

of the perBOLIS connected with ment, in finance or polley, of handling its own internal is impossible to tell.

This discovery, as it were, was his death should be sent befor although the process may in- problems. Certain it is that followed immediately by the tea special court martial. volve delays in action for the measure of control now formation. The two ingether led She was stated to be living in three or four months.

exercised by the Colonial to a general campaign against the the British zone of Germany.

licensed prostitution. Reuter. To some degree, olose con-Office is of a, nature which system of tact with the Secretary of afty years ago would neither in direct proportion to, the com- plate moral Laxity of the proced- [State must be regarded as have been possible nor con ing period war the savagery and normal and reasonable, since sidered expedient. With inflexibility of the Intolerance The himself responsible to Ceylon granted dominion which persisted in waves through

Parliament for good adminis status, Palestine turned over the 16th and 17th centuries. Imprisonment, whippings

Nanking, October 21, tration in Hong Kong as well to the United Nations, and a brandings ..became accoptod

The Executive Yuan, planning as other Colonies. There is, rapid extension of self-gov-punishments for women caught

prohibition of liquors, is giving however, much cumulative erning institutions, in other plying the avidence that Battly as a re- parts of the Colonial Empire, offenders only. A second Yuan sources, according to the

England that treatment was for wine drinkers; a break. Let sult of the financial position it may conceivably be that offence meant death. Paris con- Mol Jih Pao, said it merely was left us as a war legacy and the Colonial, Office finds itself demned; men concerned in the

banning liquor Namn fuzed from exscritía) | partly, no doubt, to the with more time upon its traic to the galleys for life, jyys/lispdeding up of communion hands. But it is no com-

and wheat. Grape, and apple wine Colony from Whitehall has its executive officers, that we hetualions of paicy were legion. present but may become During the 18th century the is not affected sccording to the developed auch proportions should be treated as requirThere was a constant grasping taboo during emergener. Asia- as to occasion resentment ing special surveillance. at fresh solutions of the insoluble, clated Press.

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