Show The Stillwell Papers Those who can remember I the days of oC world war wear II will wiIl recall that the he American general genera gen gen- era eral who worked with Chiang Kai Kai Shek Shek as the top US U.S. military military military mili mili- tary commander in the China China- India Burma area in iu m 19 44 1942 44 2 was Lieutenant General Joseph Joseph Joseph Jos Jos- eph Stillwell HE lIE WAS nicknamed Winegar Vinegar Wine Vine gar Joe so acid were his comments But these comments comments comments com com- ments did not reach the light of day too often orten And when he was recalled by President Franklin D. D Roosevelt at Chiang Chiang Chiang Chi Chi- ang Kai Shek's Kai Shek's request in 1944 Washington clamped a alid alid alid lid on his utterances at first and later his squawks were old hat or water over o the dam A paperback book entitled The Stillwell Papers is now available for or a reasonable price to all those who would like to examine the tra tragic ic and disgusting Chinese story And while Stillwell was obviously a man not easy to too get gel along with and while he may have been too acid or too cynical nevertheless his opinions and experiences should be read by e every very citizen who wants to understand understand un un- why we lost Jost China Chinato to the Communists TilE THE ANSWER Is very plain The Chiang Kai Shek regime was hopeless and destined t to lose out to the Communists Communist from 1943 onward and Stillwell Stillwell Still Still- well well saw it and said it The corruption rottenness and impossible moral atmosphere in an and i everywhere else that the Kai Kai- Shek government went is vividly vividly viv vi idly and candidly described by Uncle Joe in hi his diary |