The growth of hostility between the British and Chinese underscored the importance of lend-lease supplies. U.S.lend-lease materials that had been designated for China before the attack on Pearl Harbor had been intercepted by the British in Burma, for they desired the Chinese quota to defend their colonial empire in the Far East. The British now threw out a card to play in achieving their goal: the Burma Road, which they could threaten to close at any time. Both Chiang Kai-shek and Magruder were acrimonious toward the British over this.[90] (查看原文)
US ambassador Clarence Gauss was particularly unhappy about this British strategy and openly protested to the British ambassador over the
Anglo desire,in Gauss's words,"to use the Burmalink in lend lease aid as a club over the heads ofthe Chinese."[91] (查看原文)
还没人写过短评呢
还没人写过短评呢