[Homer_J_Simpson]

I post below Tuchman's account of this episode. It sounds to me like Stilwell made the proposal as part of his endless effort to get Chiang to fight the Japanese somewhere, somehow, and didn't really expect it would happen. I didn't see the date of Sept. 6 named in the text, which suggests there is another source of the post referenced.

Barbara W. Tuchman, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45

[henkster]

I’m at work and don’t have my copy of Tuchman handy. Can you post the passage I mentioned, where Barb wrings her hands about “what might have been” had we cooperated with Mao?