"China was fortunate that in the supreme crisis of her national life the occasion brought forward the man in General Chiang Kai-shek. The democracies are indeed fortunate that against the combination of Hitler, Mussolini, and Konoye they have outstanding leaders in Churchill and Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, and behind them ard sustaining them, the towering figure of Roosevelt.
"We usually think of General Chiang Kai-shek only as a soldier, but in him one finds not only the soldier, but the statesman who has clearly grasped the implications of the struggle and the political as well as the material forces engaged. It is necessary to emphasize in General Chiang Kai-shek the statesman rather than the soldier, because in contrast with the Japanese militarists, to General Chiang Kai-shek battles and wars are means to statesmanlike ends.
"Japan started the war against China in 1997 with a light heart. "In three months," Prince Konoye said to his own people and to the foréfgn correspondents, "China will be beaten to her knees." The war was to be won by what is now popularly known as a "blitzkrieg". a sudden sharp attack speedily reaching a crescendo, a battle without a morrow. But the Japanese reckoned without their has "We knew that time was on our side. Time would exhaust the enemy ose resources would be sorely strained by the upkeep of the third largest navy in the world, on top of millions of soldiers and thousands of planes under war condition: Time would be required to bring into play the ponderous but solid strength of the Chinese race. And above all time would bring to the democracies the realization that China was fighting in their interest as well as her own, and.
h this awakening, the would come to help China unstintingly
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