Craig Watson
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first heard May 2026
last heard 17 Aug
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But he rejected the idea that American support should depend on sweeping political transformation.
Chang was committed to continuing the war against Japan, and Washington should back him in that effort.
In a notably far sighted passage, Johnson wrote
It is my view that since the fall of the Manchu dynasty and the collapse of the traditional Chinese concept of government,
The Chinese people have been feeling their way along towards a new evolving form of government.
A definitive form of government has not yet been established and may not be established for decades.
It may or may not be in the form of a democracy, but it will be a type of government that will be adapted to the needs of China and her people.
The tension between the two American interpretations, Carlson's idealized belief in the communists and Johnson's pragmatic support for Chiang, was more than a minor bureaucratic dispute.
It would foreshadow a debate that would dominate American foreign policy for the next decade, and would still echo when the People's Republic was proclaimed in nineteen forty nine.
The disastrous experience of nineteen forty seemed to cast doubt on whether any future for China existed outside of the Japanese Empire.
As nineteen forty one wore on, another dreadful event shook the exhausted wartime capital.
On June the fifth, Chongqing endured roughly five hours of bombing, driving the population into air raid shelters.
In one tunnel in the Shibati district, the conditions were even worse than usual.
The large shelter was supposed to have lights and electric fans, but the generators had never been connected.
Inside the air was dark, hot, and suffocating.
Around ten that evening people began emerging from the tunnel when rumors spread that the Japanese were returning with poison gas bombs.
Air raid wardens forced the people back inside even as others were still trying to come out.
Bodies toppled over one another, and panic spread as the people realized that they could not breathe.
Over the next few hours hundreds died underground in the darkness.
The exact number was never definitively established.
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