As Mme. Chiang Kai-shek delicately drew attention to her weary country last week (see p. 23), the Chinese war reappeared in the news.
Jap advances on fronts scattered from northern Kiangsu to the Salween River on the Burma border might be the prelude to the final campaign to knock exhausted China out of the war. Indeed a Tokyo broadcast threatened just that.
But Chungking was only mildly disturbed. Tokyo has often made the boast before. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek occupied himself on Chungking's South Bank, correcting the proofs of his new book. Chungking spokesmen declined to tremble.
It was just possible that the...
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