Some quarters here believe the Soviet Union in recent months has purposely minimized the amount of Soviet military assistance to China in the hope of eventually forcing the Kuomintang to give way to the Communists. It was believed Moscow's military support of China would increase greatly once the present Chinese Government transforms itself into an admitted Communist regime.
Generalissimo Chiang was reported to have opposed an open alliance with Communism solely under the influence of his wife and other members of the Soong family. The Soongs, it was said, retained faint hopes that a settlement of the Sino-Japanese war might be found as an aftermath of the Munich Agreement. One of the last hopes for the demo-erades to prevent China from going, Red was believed to be the forthcoming meeting between Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, British Ambassador to China, and Gen. Chiang.
A serious set-back to China's hopes of obtaining further assistance from the democracies was believed to be the failure of the Chinese Economic Mission now in Washington.—United Press.
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