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AUGUST 25-Blah blah meet- THE THIRTY-SECOND INSTALMENT

Ing with SAC (Mountbatton]_teli- ing how he put it over (In” Lon- don]. 3:00 p.m., "G-2 meeting." Terrible. 3:45, commander in chief meeting till 8:00. One day three meetings;; net testult-

tero,

AUGUST 20-Odlce, no meet- inga! Just paper, P.m, partial sun bath and read A Dell for Adano.

Chiang K'al-slick wants me to

go up for "important conference,"

·AUGUST 24-Office—this and

The Stilwell Papers

the

50,

occupation. How else live?

that. 11:45 meeting, Jual crap. ing conflict of 1941 that cul-dustrious, cheerful, Independient. 17. That conscription is en-and- 3:00 p.m., G-2 meeting. Terrible.minated in the Stilwell crisis: tolerant, friendly, courteous. 243543:30 SAC [supreme Allied com-} CHIANG KAI-SHEK.-I never I Judge Kuomintang and Reporters & General Offer 33317 | manders) meeting, more crap heard Chlong K'ni-shek pay Kungchanting (Communist par-16. That business is the principal

On and on till 5:30 or later. single thing that indicated gruti- fvi by what I saw:

tude to the President or to our [KMT] Corruption, neglect, AUGUST 29—Last day in Cey,

country for the help we were chaos, economy, taxes, words such, an army effective? lon. Papers all morning. 3:10 xiet

exteming 13 hlin. Invariably, and deeds. Hoarding, black H.K$18.00 SAC meeting. Sad. Packed till, when anything was promised, he murke, trading with, enemy. H.K.$36.00 | midnight,

would want more. Invariably. H.K.872,00

he would complain about

Communist programinę., redure AUGUST 30-Up at 3:30, off a, small amount of material that inxes. Ients.

Interest. Raise 7:40. Delhi at 0:00.

war being furnished. He would production, and standard of

Participate in government. make comparisons between

the ing SEPTEMBER 4-OMer, to air-huge amounts of Lend-Lease sup- Practice what they prench. field ut 10:00 and met Hurley, plles going to Great Britain and CHINESE ARMY-In 1944, on

Talked with Nelson, elc.

Pat Russin with the meagre trickle paper, the Chinese Army consist- Netcon till lunch going to China. He would come of 324 divisions, 80-odd bri- Harley) and and afterward! till 4:30. At plain that the Chinese had been gados and, 80 «n-called guérillu I dinner

on Russia, fighting for six or seven years units of about 2.000 men, each. Mountbatten tried to ditch me and yet we gave then practically This looks formidable on paper. at Cairo. F.D., said no. Pat says nothing. It would of course have till you go into closely. Then George Marshall) is for me and been indiplomatie to go into the

alises dimculties.)

I nature of the military effort Chiang Kai-shek had made since 1938. It was practically zero.

Whether or not he was grale- ful

mailer. was a smoll

The regrettable part of it was that there was nò quií pro quo. We SEPTEMBER -OR at 0:20 die what we could, furnished {across Hump] In C-54 with Hur- what was ovallable, without be

ACKNOWLEDGMENT KONG-Mre. Yin Tet Kong, Mrs. Pru Kong and Katherine Kong thank all their re- latives and frienda for their Noral tributes and expression

of sympathy extended to them during their recent, bereavement,

DEATH

MANN-On November 2, 1048, David Mann aged 30 years. Funeral nt the, Colonial Cemetery, Happy Valley, to- day at 5 p.m.

A MISFIRE

more

talk

SEPTEMBER 5-Up early and off at 9:00. Pat, Sulton, etc. Nel- to Agra In other plane. Chobun of 4:00.

N

The result

WOR

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il to

The Chinese haul no-confidence We started out to give them somo. PHILOSOPHY AS APPLIED TO

SUPPLY

contacts should be successful. It How would you start to make they were, we could gradually

build up RADIOS I DID NOT WRITE:

confidence if not, would be almost impossiblo You don't have to join in aing keep them on the offensive. log "God Save the King, but

ou, will at least stand up when themselves, the rest of them sing it.

Яon't mind standing up. All I object to is (1) standing on my knees

and (2) having my tear kicked out from under when I do stand up. with an idea, and that

Chlang Kai-shick is confronted

defeate thn. He is bewildered by the spread of Communist influence. He can't see that the mass' of Chinese people welcome the Reds That

ns being the only visible. hope 4. average strength of relief from crushing taxation. per division instead of 10,000 the abuses of the Army and Tal is not more than 5,000,

1.1's

Gestapo.

Chiang Under | K'al-shek they now begin to see unpaid, what the The the troops are unfed, shot with sickness and

expect. Greed,

A. corruption. favouritismTI, more and malnutrition.

taxes, a ruined currency, terrible

you find

1.

the

2.

may

in-waste of life, callous disregard

of all the rights of men.

That equipment Is ald, adequate, and unserviceable.

[An] Undated Paper, on the do- That training is nonexistent.minant military doctrine of the

Chinese Army.] Job-

It wasn't just a question of recruiting, organising and train- The big job was ing an army. was to change the fundamentally service, defensive attitude of the Chinese

y and Nelson, Ovet Kunning ing allowed to first ask what he 3. at noon, Pei Shih Yi (Chungking]| would do, ete. at 2:00 and at the hou nt 3:00. thot we were continuously on

4 All as usual, big mall. Hurley the defensive and he could ab und Nelson là,

any of Worked 111 11:15. strurt and delay

plans without being penalised. 5. That the officers arc THE FOLLOWING NOTES,

holders. I have] falthy in Chinese sol- Jun- written over a period of monthsiers al Chinese people:

there is nu great. and found among General Stildamentally

democratie. 5. That General B. S. Lee's an-well's unitated papers, help set misgoverned. No bars of caste

transport. modical nouncement that the Com-e background for the develone religion. Honest, frugal, In-

etc., etc. munist insurgents in South Korea have been decisively defeated means no more than that the first bid of the Soviet

planners has misfired. It

After waving

katin:

DON IDDON'S

TABI FO DIARY ***

Incredibly Naive

for wands

We

to o : Committee plan

fema

Investigate

President starts bui certainly before the new to bring about peace with the

Js.

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Less For Italy

was revived.

artillery.

to an offensive attitude. They were fixed and sot by long years of custom-Chiang Kai-shek hod made the defence his policy in the present war. He was going to trade "space for time," a very enteby way of saying he would Bever attack,

Try

otream

Foll

Conversation with the second in command of the Xth wor zone: Q. "General Wang, now that the Japs have taken the salt mines in South Shans doesn't that serlously affect your supply?"

"Oh, we've still got the sult In Yunnan to draw on."

A.

"Yes, but you have now lost the Tangku fleld, the Klangsu feld, and the Shanel field. Is there enough salt in Yunnan to supply the whole country?"

"Well, we won't

have as

much as we had before." Q. "Then there's the matter of gasoline. What are you going to do about that?"

A. "Oh, we'll gat Bloog nil

right, Q. "But you can't import any, and you don't produce any. As time

goes on, you'll be in a bar fix. This matter of salt and gasoline supply is serious. Aren't you worriced about 17" A. "Oh, no, there's really no-

thing to worry about. Of course, without resupply, our stocks will get smaller and smaller, but you don't seem lo understand that as the Japs oc- of the cupy more and more country, the part left to us will get smaller and smaller, and we won't need much salt and Kasoline."

hie

of the

·

run

the

> one-

grow

does not mean that the dan-

My own Theory is that thla ger is over, merely that new

predilection for the defensive methods will have to be

wherever possible is based, not tried. Fortunately, Com-

only on the long succession of munism has few adherents in

Chinese failures when in contact with modern methods and hi limes of wer you have, to South Korea. The free elec-

but wen pons,

also to the fact take your allies as you find them. tions held in May gave them

that most Chinese are Taoists We were Bghting Germany to tear less than five per cent of an

Tuolsm nt heart.

teaches non- down the lazi system-one-party exceptionally

supportail by I feel pretty sure that Dany resistance to outside forces; it is government, heavy poll. United States of Europe. samme subversive college professors at Kaye is so pro-British he would foolish to struggle against Gestapo and headed by an un- Nevertheless, they are well Americans are now brandishing General Eisenhower's Columbia. probably accept payment for general trend. Float with the balanced man with little educa jorganised and can count upon sticks.

Pacifists say not arms but heads † future

and avold performances there

trouble. tion. We had plenty to say,

will the encouragement, if not the Governor Dewey again talks of | will preserve the world all of a pounds.

struggle, you

only againat such a system. China, our Europeans Inlo material backing, of the or- "prosiding"

ai pence.

If he and others would do this bruise yourself on the rocks orally, was being by

shore and thodox Soviet state which the U.S.E. modelled on the U.S.A.

would certainly help the Ex-stilled along the Senator

Vandenberg says

Piquer, American showmen say seen the subconscious effects

You will get nowhere. I have party government (the Kuomin Russians have set up in North had better speed European

More For Oliver.

Inng), supported by a Gestapo unity

that our music-halls, and those in this feeling in action,

(Tai Li's organisation) and head- The Chied by an unbalanced man with Korea, President Synghman if we expect more Marshall Aid. Eric Johnston, the big boss at Australia and Canada too, cannot nese commander hesitates Rhee has frequently

10ttle education, This com- Editorialists, singing the glorles American nims, is calling a crisis make profits unless a US. star challenge fate. If he makes

govern plained of frequent infiltra-of America, declare Europe can conference of studio, chiefs. The beds, the bill.

decision to take positive action ment, however, had the prestige be strong. rich, and handsome, meeting is expected to last two

and it results badly. It is tion of Communist agents

possession of

power-it Just

Hike Uncle Samuel, if the weeks and rival the United No-New York theatrical season was fluence events.

This could be. All I know is the foult for having tried to in wna opposing Japan, and its titu from the North. Their alm nations will only get together and tions Assembly in Paris in prob- dying on its infant feet un take Its course, is to start disturbances which serap the barriers.

itons verbosity, and

If he lets nature lar hend had been built up by. wrongling.

eveything may propaganda In Amerien out of all might develop in such a way And all this is to be done on Hollywood feels that the ester-Robert Morley, Peggy Ashcroft, come out all right, but if it does proportion to his deserts and ac- as to provide an excuse for the hop, perhaps by Christmas, trilniment industry must act now Edward, My Son," ant the aldie what has occurred, since he did the existing regime in order to ant Ian Hunter came along with not, he cannot be blamed for complishments. We had to back the Russian-trained "people's

Private Lives," by Noel Coward, nothing to bring it about. A have any chance of getting China the January British film industry or face a army" in the North to step audit.

scopegoat is always being sought to pull her weight.

To change in. The South Korean Gov-

prolonged, exhausting, and expen- The statisticlans forecast that for, under conditions where re-the structure during There is something incredibly sive "war" with Britain.

the emer- ernment recently stretched a

anive in these exhortalions. The

despite all the gloom the Ameri-peated failures must be explain, gency would have been next to of "Oliver Twist" is case of police

tendency impossible. All through the Chi- cordon across the New World forgets the years of not yet finished. Americans have can film industry will receive noted and the inevitable

Is to avoid any chance of being nese machinery tess then 45,000,000 dollars in

of government peninsula three miles south struggle and agony before the in- beer bombarding their

new cush from its foreign showings. This attitude is general there are interlocking ties of in fant American Republie could papers and magazines demanding daring 1049.

Chinese Army. of the 28th parallel to bar the toddle

Half comes from

om an added reason-a Chinese comical, etc.

There is terest... family, financial, poli- that the British film be shown Britain and France. The total way without courting clashes. It ignores the

No man, no matter mand is the property of the com-j with North Korean patrols European division, distrust, pride, reaction to the, portrayal of Fagin 1947, but it is undoubtedly some- he risks on investment. A divi-ion of authority on account of

centuries of here no matter what the Zunist only 50 per cent of receipts in manding general: If he risks it how efficient, can hope for a posl on the Russian side of the and envy, and the little matter of

differences in language.

thing for which Mr. Johnston and sion reduced to the strength of being the man best qualified for border.

all executives here should bea regiment by an attack cannot other backing. To reform such a the job; he simply must have While Dr. Synghman Rhee

grateful. If We Can Do It

expect to be filled up at once to was away in Tokyo visiting

New York's Italian-Americans so well in Toronto,

Shakespeare has not been doing its former strength. The divi- system, it must be torn to pieces.

becomes Margaret lon commander thus

You bulld framework to General MacArthur. a rebel- The fact that Britain already there are 700,000 of them--are Webster's productions of "Hamster, and such reduction is to be time, the vines grow all over it, in effect a regimental comman-rapevines on: in the course of. lion broke out in the extreme has a united Commonwealth com- protesting with vigour against let" and "Macbeth" for college avoided ni all hazards. Southern tip of the penin-prising one-quarter of the globe the many Hollywood-made Alms and high-school st dents were

twisting In and out and around sula.

The small towns of and one-fourth of its population depicting Italians gangsters, greeted with boos, catcalls, and by the idea that the Japs were tightly held by the vines that if The Chinese were dominater and pretty soon the frame is so Yosu and Sunchen were seiz an added irritant to the U.S.E murderes, and law-breakers.

wolf whistles during the playing BO boomsters and hucksters, I we

General Eisenhower's forthcom- of love scenes. Alfred Ryder, armament, and equipment

superior in training, you start pulling them out, you ed, apparently with the aim can handle o glant job like that, ing book, "Crusade in Europe,'

that will tear the frames to pieces. of securing arms to capture suy the critics, United the port of Rusan, but the should be a mere

exercise. Communists were able to ad-

on many occasions that telefilmed by Twentieth Century-

Chi-

and do the best we could. nese division did not have the because it was expedient to back But The election of Thomas E. Fox. Twenty-six two-reolers will vance only in the face of

Deway is now regarded as such a be shot. The American Brond-

Are-power of a Jap regiment, and this government to Ket action stiff resistance and many certainty that Americans are be

that three Chinese divisions were against Japan, it was not neces Company, which will casting. casualties and it would seem ginning to worry about what show the film, paid 400,000 dollars The newsreels are playing ninet a match for one Jap division.sarily advisable to endorse its from General Lee's statement comes next.

for the serien

favourites in the Presidential Naturally, his commanders eager methods and pollcles, We could that the Government now the

If Dewey wins on November 2 Eisenhower's share has not been campaign. Audiences are apa-ly accepted this statement as full have required Rome return for believes that it can quell the the country will be virtually with- divulged, but the book itself will thatie to all the candidates. Per-excuse for running away. A new our help.

a President until the Gov- bring him 800,000 dollars, of hops Tallulah Bankhead will spirit had to be built up. It was outbreak. American forces, ernor takes effee in January, which he may keep 75 per cent. liven things up when she speaks vitally necessary that the fresh still some 24.000 strong In Cynics say the U.S. has got along tax free as a “copital gain," over a national hook-up from her South Korea, have not been a without a President for aver Winston Churchill's story of dressing-room urging voters to

three years, so there's no need the war is said to be priced at support Mr. Truman. asked to intervene.

to panic,

million dollars, but all Hollywold by, so many, the President is The Russian decision to Actually, the next two months producers have winced at such a quite touched by the actress's

loyalty. withdraw the Soviet army of will be tricky. General Marshall #gure.

Best occupation from the North-will be on his way out, the other

party of the week was ern zone a movement which Cabinet members will be packing Hearted," written some years age given by Beatrice, Lille, Arthur is stated to have begun al- their bags, and no one is at all for Korda, was never Bimed, but Schwartz, and Howard Dietz for sure what Dewey intends to do may go before the cameras when Sir Charles und Lady Cochran. ready-does not mean that except "carry out the biggest un production costs are not so high. A pity some of our more recently the Soviet Union is in any tangling, unsnarling operation in

successful theatrical producers most delighted man In haven't Cochran's gence, charm, way disinteresting itself in the country's history." Korean affairs. With a Com-

New York, almost bare of cam Hollywood is Danny Kaye, who and publicity knowhow,

topped six American acts at the Footnote Churchill has shown munist state firmly establish ash posters sparkles in a win Royal Command Performance on America that he has the convic

sunshino.

a crammed with ed in the North under the visitors from out of town. Trame November 1.

tions of his courage, dictatorship of un armed blocks are for worse than Lon- minority of the population, don's, and. there is no solution, the Russians may well think New shops, now restaurants, that they can safely leave to new offices open on the avenues. it the work of bringing the Street cleaners' puff elgars und entire country under Com- drive away from their jobs in munist control. Such cal- Chevrolets, Plymouths, and Fords, culations may be unset by. Luftmen get £10 a week, and the enthusiasm which the secretaries demand £15. Drug- store counters and bars are people in the South are

are full of crowded and stores showing for the new Govern- buyers. ment. Until this Govern- ment feels strong-enough to New fure, brightly coloureıl~~ resist attack from the North even rose red or horizon blue. and very light, about Sibare on with its own resources, it has show, and the latest mink with a naked American troops, to flowing skirt, 14ft. in elreum Istay, and the Korean National ference at the bottom, is priced

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