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Under normal circumstances a nation has to have strength and power to achieve effective diplomacy. However, the year 1942 was far from normal in terms of American-British-Chinese relations. It was a particularly difficult and critical time from Britain’s point of view because of the utter need to sustain China’s war effort against Japan while it concentrated on fighting against Germany, and because of the necessity to address the desire of the United States, on which Britain was heavily dependent for lend-lease materials, to accommodate the ever increasing demand of China. This paper attempts to show how Britain tried to deal with this trying situation, not without reluctance at times, by the employment of symbolism as diplomacy, characterized by praise, flattery, honors of various kinds and so on, to tide itself over the first year of the Pacific War until the war tide began to turn in the Allies’ favor early in 1943. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]