1937 when chiang is wondering about what to do, the german advises him to attack to the east. the germans always tell you to attack to the east. [laughter] he also acquired a lot of german arms and equipment. they had trade, they gave the germans tungsten, and the germans sent supplies. and then, of course, the whole eshoo of hitler's allies -- issue of hitler's allies with japan kicked in, and at that point hitler ordered the german advisers to be pulled out, and they were. many of them reluctantly. chiang then turn today soviet advisers, including some very distinguished officer of the red army are going to become prominent in world war ii. but, yes, there is a time when the german add advisers are very prominent and important to china. >> rich are, the next question is on line. it might be the last question, but it comes from a text from my buddy, dave walker. i'd like to let the crowd here know, but more importantly the crowd watching online, dave has been in charge of our social media here at the museum for over four years, and this week is his final week here, and tonigh

since his deportation it's all in has lived in chiang mai thailand she's now preparing to leave asia for good. we film only in dollars mindful that quaid min high disappeared while holidaying in this country and of the fact that darwin is still recovering from his old deal i had a pretty intense sort of p.t.s.d. related symptoms to deal with when i 1st relocated here like my girlfriend disappears in the supermarket to go get something without telling me and you know they'll have a minor freak out standing in the aisle like what's going on. you know doesn't really don't want to i don't know. that. scuffles breakouts outside a courthouse in the northern chinese city of chen jin as stalin's form a co-founder one true and junks trial gets underway and. he's been held without access to his family or lawyers for more than 3 years. the courts hands him a 4 and a half year sentence for subversion he is one of the few people that have refused to make a forced to be confession. he would choose to be tortured to death before submitting to something that he know isn't wrong like making a forced

memories a chance to preach against the trees from atlanta this lead to catch my sleeve but if that's the chiang mai speak the legend that may still be out and the tantrums he then on the accent will be on the great man. yeah i know my sound the sound of a smack on the thing i'm a profound time of the sound i just fail time i'm on a side and i just michael cheika help us find a way to sell this promise now the spammers have. to get it up my side of my stamp i'm going to go buy my bike with a tramp myself to send it to me then i go about this i'll be treating someone else on that same day about. headed to the sound that's going to get a credit i'm certain that it comes in st paul that my head here comes to my feet so big i say that would help with. that michael told me to play the puppet make it up and pull the leaves with the breeze comes with. the cup that have come to defeat us i'll close the shelf of the sweet. song that i was in this think of something but don't believe we cut the punches really. help me. sat outside watching the hostile. sides of my circle of light and the terrible size and

and rob i'm saying that the city of new chiang in china to their province is easing those travel curbs is the situation returning to normal in what was the epicenter. we are getting encouraging signs it's far too early of course given the dislocation especially in the epicenter province for it to say it's a return to normal but we are seeing encouraging signs more travel being allowed in parts of that province also outside of who we're being told by ministry officials in beijing that around 95 percent of all of larger companies in china are now returning to work so very slowly the wheels beginning to turn once more in the world's 2nd biggest economy and the numbers for new infections continue to be encouraging only 8 new cases across china have been recorded that's the 1st time that new cases on a national level have been in single digits it's allowed to china to have the confidence now to lend a helping hand reach out to countries such as italy we're seeing that a team has been sent from china of nurses and doctors who are now very experienced in dealing with infectious diseases to sh

after tehran there was a meeting with chiang kai-shek for postwar planning and the far east. and of course important tehran meeting. that was in november of 1943. and then meetings that were very important for the postwar world, the bretton woods meeting in new hampshire were all of the important decisions were made for the financial post world -- postwar order. out of this meeting, the dollar became the strongest currency in the world and other currency would be pegged to the dollar after the world -- after the war. meeting that mainly dealt with united nations matters. where the canada morgenthau plan was apparently decided. moscow in the soviet union, churchill flew there. he flew 107,000 miles during the war to get to these meetings. were flown ins converted bombers. unpressurized, unheated so the travel was not very comfortable at the time. if you think about all the attending,urchill is i will talk about it a bit. moscow 1944 an important decision was made about how the balkans would be divided between the east and the west. a so-called percentage agreement. there was a

at his house he said i learned how to use chopsticks in paris, when i had dinner with kai shek.ck - chiang cob,ther was corn on the we headed at the house. taught general molotov how to eat corn on the cob. ok. [laughter] >> the molotov cocktail. brian: i don't think those are tied together. [laughter] , as he aged,ating to hear the stories. many in the room have heard many of the great stories as well. but not those on c-span. he was also called up by the vatican to be a vatican observer. and he was deeply involved with the catholic church. i do not know how many popes he spent private time with. but he was very passionate about his faith. as was grace, his wife. one of the tricks i learned, anyone who learned new ralph, if you wanted him to open up and talk, get him a glass of for lundy a -- finlandia. on the second when he is ready to start telling his story. he would open up. let me ask a different question. environmentin an where japan was changing a lot. and you would go to western europe or south america. you had experience with different kinds of regimes. i'm sure that made you thi