It was at the grand banquet given in his honor that General William “Wild Bill” Donovan told his host, General Dai Li, that the OSS intended to work on its own in China and that he wanted no interference from the Chinese. Dai Li exploded. He would execute any OSS agents found operating independently on Chinese soil.
Donovan struck the table, shouted: “For every one of our agents you kill, we will kill one of your generals!”
“You can't talk to me like that.” Dai Li shouted back.
“I am talking to you like that,” Donovan said. The two men “were suddenly all smiles.”
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