PART ONE From Pearl Harbor to the Cairo Conference 1
1．December 1941：The Longed-for Combination 3
2．The Dispatch of the Stilwell Mission 14
3．China Is Isolated 24
4．After the Defeat in Burma 34
5．Ardors and Refusals：During the Rest of 1942 45
6．How Best to Keep China in the War：The Dark Winter of 1942-1943 55
7．For the Relief of the Siege of China：The Argument Prolonged 63
8．Further Plasn and Discords：The Later Months of 1943 71
9．To Keep Peace Within China 81
PART TWO From the Cairo Conference to the Surrender of Japn 93
10．To Make China a Great Power 95
11．Cairo and Teheran Conferences：Political Plans 103
12．Cairo and Teheran Conferences：Military Plans 115
13．Trouble in Burma Once More：Spring of 1944 126
14．Again the Communists：Chinese and Russian 136
15．The Wallace Mission 145
16．After the Wallace Mission 157
17．The American Emergency Proposals：Summer of 1944 166
18．Hurley Goes to China via Moscow 178
19．The Crisis about Stilwell 185
20．Stilwell Goes and Wedemeyer Takes Over 200
21．Hurley Goes On with His Assignment(October 1944 to February 1945) 208
22．The Syndrome of the Yalta Agreement 226
23．The Agreement Made at Yalta：February 1945 240
24．Differences about Policy：The Seams Traced 255
25．The Focal Issue Argued：Should the United States Enlist the Chinese Communists？ 265
26．The Soviet Side 278
27．Blurred American Policy：Late Spring 1945 290
28．Steps Pursuant to the Yalta Agreement 304
29．Agreements at Potsdam：July 1945 322
30．From Potsdam to V-J Day 333
PART THREE From the Surrender of Japan to the Marshall Mission 353
31．The Struggle for Control of China 355
32．How Much Aid for China after the War？ 368
33．The Darkening Prospect 377
34．Contemporaneous Trouble about Japan 390
35．Crisis of Decision：Toward New Policy 396
36．The Hurley Resignation 406
37．Marshall Is Instructed 413
Index 431