China Tangle

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