For Smedley's sympathetic interest in these events and meetings, see letters to Taylor, November 11 and December 8, 1942, and January 13,1943

Letter to Taylor, January 27, 1943

Letter to Taylor dated October, 1942. Dr. Liu had been a close associate of Dr. Robert K. Lin's and a high Guomindang medical official since 1930; for Liu's views in 1943 on China's medical needs, see his contribution in Harley F. MacNair, ed., Voices from Unoccupied China (Chicago, 1944), pp. 36-45

Letter to Taylor, November 20, 1942

Letter to Taylor, January 27, 1943

Letters to Taylor, February 7, 27, 1943, and letter dated only October, 1942

Kazin, New York Jew, p. 61; letter to Taylor, January 24, 1943

Cited in Barbara Tuchman, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (New York, 1970), p. 238

See John Hersey's comments in chapter 2, »Henry Luce and the Gordian Knot,« in MacKinnon and Friesen, China Reporting

Alfred Kazin, New York Jew (New York, 1978), pp. 58-64