[wardaddy]

I’ve never read where we favored Mao over The General and Madam financially in any way

I’d like to see that

I’m gonna ping two folks smarter than me

If I’m wrong I’ll admit it

It happens a few times a year and I am humble about it

I can’t quarrel much with the rest of your original post but that second paragraph about China caught my eye

[jjotto]

Wasn’t a case of the US ‘favoring’ Mao. US required Chiang to spend our resources fighting the Japanese, as the Communists were weak and didn’t seem like much of a threat. Or at least that’s a conventional understanding.

[Pelham]

“Does it come up in the Venona transcripts? “

I see Haynes & Klehr’s ‘Venona’ cited in footnote 55 at the Chiang Kai-shek wikipedia page.

They may have run across something indicating that American sympathizers with the Chinese Communist Party affected the flow of aid to Chiang’s Nationalists.

[Ohioan]

The State Department, basically, left the Chinese Nationalists "out to dry"; we did not finance the Communists, but did not effectively act to counter the aid that Stalin gave Mao, after Stalin seized Manchuria--then plundered some of the heavy industry there before turning over what he did not plunder to Mao.

Remember that we only started in stages to try to counter Stalin's seizure of nations, after a number of alarming developments. Meanwhile, Paton had been removed--and possibly assassinated for being anti-Communist; and Stalin had seized several Eastern European nations. (We did not really react until after Czechoslovakia fell.)

[Ohioan]

The State Department Leftists, also did a PR hatchet job on the Chinese Nationalist, which was not reversed until the Korean War, when Truman ordered the Navy to protect the Nationalists on Taiwan.

To briefly comment on the main theme of the thread, Mihailovic was the true Serbian loyalist. It is about time that they honored his memory.

It is largely lost on the current scene, but he commanded the guerrilla forces loyal to King Peter, the teen aged Monarch, who courageously fought against the German invasion--rushing to rescue Mussolini from humiliation, after the Italians attacked Greece, and were effectively counter-attacked.