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...diplomatic colony gathered at Spasso House, the home of U.S. Ambassador Alan Kirk. They were watching a movie, when big news arrived. Within hours of Mao Tse-tung's bid, Joseph Stalin's government had granted recognition to the Chinese Communist government. In a brusque note to Canton, Moscow had brushed off the Nationalist as "a provincial government" and withdrawn its recognition...
...Reds were said to be approaching Lingling, 235 miles northwest of Canton...
When wind of Fu's mission reached Canton, the Nationalist high command sent two missions flying northward with silver dollars. They arrived too late, turned back in dejection. Like General Fu, Governor Tung joined the Red army and, as an earnest of his loyalty, turned Suiyuan over to Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung...
...plight of Farmer Ah Teng, a refugee from a village near Canton, was typical of China's immemorial calamity. Even war had not been so dread a scourge as the flood. "When the Japs were here," said Ah Teng, "the battle raged four times across our village. But through it all we lived in the same hut. Now the hut has been swept away. My only buffalo, the pigs and chickens-all we have is gone...
Last week, Chen Ming-jen defected to the Communists too. Another southward lunge brought the Communists within 215 miles of Canton, where weary Nationalist officials began packing again. Their next stop: Chungking, scene of their exile during most of the war with Japan. Nationalist General Pai Chung-hsi hastily regrouped what was left of his forces at Hengyang...