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many thousand trained guerrilla fighters. And many thousands of farmer guerrillas are operating behind Japanese lines.
3. Our civilians, including women and children, are completely mobilized for the war effort, prepared and willing to make any sacrifices necessary to carry on the [[strike through]] war e [[/strike through]] struggle until Japan is defeated. The importance of this factor- a people dedicated without reservation, at any sacrifice, to their countrys war effort has been overlooked till now by many outside observers.
4. China offers a war theater on a 2,800 mile front from which a vast allied counter offensive can be launched, and air bases for raids by air upon Japan and the territories she now holds.

Chinas ancient [[strikethrough]] Grass Root [[/strikethrough]] tradition of democracy.
China, oldest continuous civilization in the world. For thousands of years China was governed by a bureaucracy of scholars, and no one held office who could not pass a rigid examination. These examinations, it is true, did not test a mans capacity for the job he was to hold but, rather, his knowledge of language, tradition, and the Confucian philosophy; but the examinations were open to all, rich or poor, and scholarship, not power, nor money, nor prestige, was the criterion of a mans fitness to govern.
Individualism is another characteristic of a democratic people which the chinese possess. The Chinese jealously guards his personal rights. Various reform movements in China have frequently run into difficulties because they sought to change personal habits of life in the interest of social betterment. The Chinese view such regulation as an invasion of individual rights, but today, convinced of the social necessity for individual