Eve of a Hundred Midnights (46 page)

journalist reporting on, 6

Keller on, 49

Kunming-Haiphong railway attacks, 98–99

Kuomintang-Communist tensions, 166–67, 181–82

Lingnan students' opinions of, 27

Marco Polo Bridge incident, 38–39, 40

MJ's U.S. government connections, 148, 154

MJ's visit to Peiping during (1937), 42–46

MJ reports on (1937), 44, 46, 51

negotiations (1937), 43–44

New Fourth Army incident, 166–67, 181

northwestern frontier (1941), 181–84

Rape of Nanking, 62–63, 242

Shippey interview with MJ, 125–26

Sian incident, 28–29, 31, 36, 37

U.S. role, 118, 148–49, 154, 162, 177–79

See also
United China Relief; wartime press conditions

Skolsky, Sidney, 137, 139, 190

Smith, May, 54–55

Smith, Paul, 59

Smith, Shelley.
See
Mydans, Carl and Shelley Smith

Snow, Ed, 118, 153

Snow, Helen Foster, 81

Somewhere I'll Find You
(film), 358

Song Zheyuan, 38–39

Soong, Ay-ling (Soong Ailing) (Madame H. H. Kung), 87, 164, 208, 222

Soong, Mayling (Soong Meiling) (Madame Chiang)

AWJ's work for, 201–2, 205, 238

Chungking residence (1940), 87

MJ's death and, 371

MJ's interviews with, 94, 118

MJ-AWJ wedding and, 220–21, 222

New Life Movement and, 31, 201–2

panda diplomacy and, 198, 199, 216

Soong, T. V., 87

Soong Ching-ling (Soong Qingling) (Madame Sun), 87–88, 118, 164

So Proudly We Hail
(film), 359

Sorel, Nancy Caldwell, 140, 202, 245–46

Spanish Civil War, 22, 39

Spanish flu epidemic, 15

Sproul, Robert G., 145

Stanford University

AWJ's years at, 20, 127, 129–33, 134

MJ's masters' studies at, 54–58, 59

MJ's undergraduate years at, 18–20, 51–54

Steele, Archibald Trojan, 107

Stern, Jackee, 350–51

Stern, Jacob, 14, 15

Stern, Peggy, 350–51

Stimson, Henry, 371

Stuart, Charles E., 71–72, 73, 157, 169, 192

Sullivan, Walter, 366

Sun, Madame (Soong Ching-ling), 87–88, 118, 164

Sutherland, Maj. Gen. Richard K., 284

Swift, Otis P., 157

Tai Li (Dai Li), 76

Taiping Rebellion, 26

Tee-Van, John, 223–24

Theta Sigma Phi (Association for Women in Communications), 132

“This Is Our Battle” book manuscript (Jacoby & Jacoby), 310, 323–24, 332, 334, 336, 337, 355–56, 358, 359, 372

Thompson, Polly, 49–50

Through the Looking Glass
(French), 64

Thunder Out of China
(White & Jacoby), 363–64, 365

Time
magazine

escape from the Philippines and, 240, 328–29

MJ's death and, 355

See also
Luce, Henry R.; MJ's reporting for
Time
magazine; MJ's
Time
bureau chief job (Manila)

Time Views the News
(radio program), 362

Timperley, H. J., 151, 157, 192, 212

Tish
(film), 191

Tolley, Rear Adm. Kemp, 312

Tong, Hollington “Holly” (Dong Xianguang)

AWJ's United China Relief work and, 201, 207–8

censorship and, 180

Chungking journalist community and, 79, 80

MJ's disillusionment with Voice of

China job and, 92, 96, 100

MJ-AWJ engagement and, 207–8

MJ-AWJ wedding and, 222

MJ Voice of China job offer, 67–68, 69, 72

Voice of China working conditions and, 74, 119, 150–51

Tripartite Pact, 109

Tyler, Lt. J. W., 346

“Unheavenly City” (Jacoby), 77, 91, 96

United China Relief

AWJ's work for (1941), 158, 160, 192, 199–200, 201–2, 216

AWJ's work for (1942), 359

China Week, 151–54

committee members, 144–46

Hollywood meeting, 159–60

MJ's work for (1941), 152–53, 157, 160, 198–200, 216

origins of, 143–44

panda diplomacy, 198–200, 216, 221–22, 223–24

United Press, 69, 96, 104, 149–50

U.S. Army Transportation Service, 5

Vance, Maj. Reginald, 230–31

Van Landingham, Charles

Cebu sojourn, 303, 305–6, 307, 308

Doña Nati
escape, 313, 315, 318

Princesa de Cebu
escape, 287–88, 294, 295, 299–300

Vespa, Amleto, 212

Voice of China (XGOY) (Chungking)

MJ job offer (1942), 119

origins of, 71–73

Soong sisters broadcast, 88–89

See also
MJ's Chungking Voice of

China job (1940)

“Voice of Freedom”, 266, 294

Votaw, Maurice “Mo”, 80, 93, 118–19, 194

Wang Ching-wei (Wang Jingwei), 63, 116, 144

War Brides
(potential film), 158, 162, 191, 192, 272

wartime press conditions

anti-Communism and, 363, 364–65

Arizona State University conference (1982), 366

censorship (1941), 180–81, 182, 195

Chungking, 65, 67, 186–87

Corregidor, 263–64

Indochina, 103, 104, 107, 109, 110, 112

Institute for Pacific Relations and, 95

Manila relocation, 216–17

MJ's United Press job and, 107–8, 112

MJ master's thesis on, 54–58, 59

Philippines invasion threat and, 8, 238–39

Shanghai (1939), 64

women's difficulty in traveling, 140–41

See also
MJ's Chungking Voice of China job (1940)

Wavell, Gen. Archibald Percival, 290

Weber, Joseph, 322–23, 324

Wheeler, Capt. John, 311

White, Theodore H. “Teddy”

Arizona State University conference (1982), 366

Australia sojourn and, 331–32, 341

AWJ
Time
magazine correspondent job (1943) and, 362–63

Hersey and, 147

Indochina trip, 100–101, 105

MJ's death and, 352–53

MJ's friendship with, 81, 82–83, 176–77

MJ's reporting for
Time
magazine and, 94, 96, 166, 168

MJ-AWJ engagement and, 205–6

Thunder Out of China
, 363–64, 365

Whitmore, Annalee.
See
Jacoby, Annalee Whitmore

Whitmore, Anne (AWJ's mother), 278, 361

Whitmore, Carol (AWJ's sister), 278

Whitmore, Jim (AWJ's brother), 141

Whitmore, Leland (AWJ's father), 128, 136, 359

Whitmore, Sharp (AWJ's brother), 367

Wilbur, Ray Lyman, 58, 59

Wilkie, Wendell, 145, 152, 153

Willoughby, Amea, 267–68, 269

Willoughby, Capt. Charles, 267

Wilson, Dick, 106, 149, 164

Winchell, Walter, 365

Wolverton, Margaret, 52

Woo Kya-Tang (Wu Giadang), 65, 67

World War II

approach of U.S. war with Japan, 223, 224–26

“Europe First” strategy, 225–26, 234, 261–62, 280–81

fall of France, 95–96, 98

outbreak (1939), 60

Pearl Harbor attack (1941), 226–27, 280, 361

See also
Philippines invasion threat (1941); Sino-Japanese War; wartime press conditions

Wright, Betty Leigh, 52

XGOY.
See
Voice of China

Young, George Armstrong, 37

Zhang Xueliang (Chang Hsueh-liang), 28–29

Zhou Enlai (Chou En-lai), 76, 182

Ziegfeld Girl
(film), 139, 190

BILL LASCHER
is a journalist whose work has appeared in the
Guardian, Pacific Standard,
Gizmodo,
Portland Monthly,
and other publications. He was a 2011 Knight Digital Media Center multimedia and convergence fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism. He is a graduate of Oberlin College, the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC, and the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, and lives in Portland, Oregon.

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*
In the nineteenth century, this same riparian backwater produced one of China's most notorious would-be revolutionaries: Hong Xiuquan. Believing himself to be the brother of Christ, Hong led the Taiping Rebellion, a massive uprising that ultimately killed 20 million people.

*
Figures for how many were killed during the “Rape of Nanking” remain highly politicized and disputed, but the reality is that tens of thousands were massacred.

*
Life
credits this image to an outside picture agency, but Mel's letter accompanying the negatives, as well as future letters, suggests that he took this picture. It's unclear if the final published image was a separate one from the one Mel described, as some images were shot similarly by multiple photographers. Additionally, the National Archives and Records Administration credits an identical photo to Carl Mydans, but Mydans was not in Chungking when this attack took place.

*
The film was Gable's
Somewhere I'll Find You
. Produced by Annalee's studio, MGM, the movie had a further tragic twist beyond its stinging subject matter.
Somewhere
's production had been halted after Gable's wife, the actress Carole Lombard, died in a January 16, 1942, plane crash.