Time, November 13,1944; White, In Search of History, pp. 209-10. See also Schaller's comments on press coverage of Stilwell's recall in chapter 8 of MacKinnon and Friesen, China Reporting

The most readable accounts of this famous episode are probably Tuchman, Stilwell, pp. 581-670, and White, In Search of History, pp. 132-79. See also Schaller, United States Crusade, for a deeper exploration of American motives

See Dick Wilson, When Tigers Fight (New York, 1982), pp. 223-46, on the military situation; Tuchman, Stilwell, and Michael Schaller, The United States Crusade in China, 1938-1945 (New York, 1979), are authoritative background works on F.D.R.'s decision

Smedley to A. Taylor, August 9, 1944

Interview with Xie Hegeng; Xie, Introduction to Liangzhong Meiguo-ren (Beijing, 1980); Smedley to Wang Yong: June 15, 1944, and three datable by context between May and July, 1944; also Wang Yong to Smedley, June 20, 1944, February 28, 1945

Interview with Katherine A. Porter; Joan Givner, Katherine Anne Porter: A Life (New York, 1982), references to the Habermans on pp. 151, 152, 157, 209, 217, and chapter 7 on the Greenwich Village and Mexico City network

Carr, Lonely Hunter, p. 248

F.B.I. 61-6580-332, pp. 12, 13; 100-9125-1-5 (Albany); Malcolm Cowley papers, Yaddo Box, second folder marked »1949, Yaddo - The Affair.« The name of the secretary was Mary Townsend, whose personal relations with Smedley were, needless to say, never good

Gibson, August 29, 1944, in Congressional Record, vol. 90, part 12, pp. 7378-80 and appendix 3906

Los Angeles Tribune, February 21, 1944, and Smedley papers, file VI-73D-64, 65, 67, 71; see also Afro-American, July 29, 1944