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We'll talk about that in a minute, but let me correct something I said before. It was March 1944 in Time which noted a change, not Life, in the diplomatic climate. It was an article entitled “Cause For Alarm,” which reported the evident deterioration in relations among the Big Three after the Tehran Conference in November 1943. That's why you couldn't remember what it was. It was in Time; it wasn't in Life. Let's talk about China for a minute and Life. Did Harry Luce influence Life vis-a-vis China?

Definitely.

Why don't you talk about that?

I suppose it goes back to practically the beginning of the century when his father was one of those trying to Christianize China, all with the best of intent. Harry was always very pro-China and was trying to make it into a Western Christian nation. As you know, China was going through constant turmoil in the 1920s and 1930s, and Chiang Kaishek finally got the upper hand, or appeared to have the upper hand. He and his wife were Christians and looked to a lot of people like the saviors of China, and particularly looked like that to Harry. So he espoused the cause of Chiang Kaishek back in the--when was it?--late 1930s. He never ceased to be, I guess, probably their most important backer in the U.S. He never, never waivered, even when the evidence was presented to him that Chiang was not exactly and exemplary leader and that the country was torn apart