Chungking has never been a particularly happy city. It is at best a dark, damp, depressing place. But never before has there been such gloom as prevails this spring in China's capital.
Chungking is no longer a city of defiance, a place where men dream of their country's coming unity and progress, and act in the face of crisis. The inmates of Chungking—for many of them have come to feel like inmates rather than inhabitants—are gradually becoming spectators of the war rather than its combatants, and they are depressed by what they watch.
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is still a symbol and...
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