34. Contemporaneous Trouble about Japan

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword v
3. Contents ix
4. Part One. From Pearl Harbor to the Cairo Conference
5. 1. December 1941: The Longed-for Combination 3
6. 2. The Dispatch of the Stilwell Mission 14
7. 3. China Is Isolated 24
8. 4. After the Defeat in Burma 34
9. 5. Ardors and Refusals: During the Rest of 1942 45
10. 6. How Best to Keep China in the War: The Dark Winter of 1942-1943 55
11. 7. For the Relief of the Siege of China: The Argument Prolonged 63
12. 8. Further Plans and Discords: The Later Months of 1943 71
13. 9. To Keep Peace Within China 81
14. Part Two. From the Cairo Conference to the Surrender of Japan
15. 10. To Make China a Great Power 95
16. 11. Cairo and Teheran Conferences: Political Plans 103
17. 12. Cairo and Teheran Conferences: Military Plans 115
18. 13. Trouble in Burma Once More: Spring of 1944 126
19. 14. Again the Communists: Chinese and Russian 136
20. 15. The Wallace Mission 145
21. 16. After the Wallace Mission 157
22. 17. The American Emergency Proposals: Summer of 1944 166
23. 18. Hurley Goes to China via Moscow 178
24. 19. The Crisis about Stilwell 185
25. 20. Stilwell Goes and Wedemeyer Takes Over 200
26. 21. Hurley Goes On with His Assignment (October 1944 to February 1945) 208
27. 22. The Syndrome of the Yalta Agreement 226
28. 23. The Agreement Made at Yalta: February 1945 240
29. 24. Differences about Policy: The Seams Traced 255
30. 25. The Focal Issue Argued: Should the United States Enlist the Chinese Communists? 265
31. 26. The Soviet Side 278
32. 27. Blurred American Policy: Late Spring 1945 290
33. 28. Steps Pursuant to the Yalta Agreement 304
34. 29. Agreements at Potsdam: July 1945 322
35. 30. From Potsdam to V-J Day 333
36. Part Three. From the Surrender of Japan to the Marshall Mission
37. 31. The Struggle for Control of China 355
38. 32. How Much Aid for China after the War? 368
39. 33. The Darkening Prospect 377
40. 34. Contemporaneous Trouble about Japan 390
41. 35. Crisis of Decision: Toward New Policy 396
42. 36. The Hurley Resignation 406
43. 37. Marshall Is Instructed 413
44. Index 431
45. Backmatter 446