[colorado tanker]

The Times today is promoting another Communist paradise, I see. I wonder why it didn't occur to the reporter that the Communists are so well supplied because they are not fighting the Japanese very much?

The British finally return to Greece. This will be a major development in keeping Greece from turning communist after the war.

I have visited Italy a number of times but it was generally sunny and warm. I had no idea how much rain they get in the winter until following these daily dispatches.

[henkster]

The Times will go far toward giving Americans the impression the Mao’s commies are more “agrarian reformers” than “real communists.” And considering the alternative was a thoroughly corrupt and incompetent Nationalist regime, it was natural to look for something else.

As a nation, we’ve never understood China. We think or want it to be something it’s not. It’s still that way. Americans would be well served to think of China in terms of China’s own proverb:

“We can always fool the foreigner.”