"The Chinese, who had regarded the signing of the pact as a time Tomb, the effects of which could not be seen until the existing flow of Russian supplies had come to hand, now recovered their confidence, "Among higher Government officials in Chungking, it is almost axiomatic that China's future depends on an Allied victory in Europe. They could make peace with Japan tomorrow but the Japanese army would be back again in five or ten years unless peace is guaranteed as an integral part of} the great world settlement for which free peoples are fighting, "Although relations between the Government and the Chinese Communists can best be described as an. armed truce. higher leaders on both sides appear determined to prevent! the dispute from interfering with China's resistance to the invaders.
"The important fact about the Communists is not so much that they are: Communists as that they are Chinese and may be aspected to act as such.
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