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While the Assembly shook with cries of "Bravo!" and "Disrupter!", Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek scribbled an unofficial note to Provisional Chairman Sun Fo. Secretary-General Hung Lan-yu glanced at it, got silence, announced: "The delegate from Kweichow, Chang Tao-fan, voluntarily withdraws as candidate . . . and offers his place to his provincial colleague Yang Ti-chung...
...Hsin Mm Pao reporter unkindly noted that Chang Tao-fan looked up attentively as he heard the news of his voluntary gesture for democracy. The Assembly applauded the solution. The Gissimo beamed. On the parliamentary bookshelf, Robert moved over for Chiang...
...Carson Chang's Rightist Social Democrats said perhaps. Dr. Lo Lung-chi's left-wing adherents were noncommittal. Back at the red house, the poll takers reported. The Generalissimo listened, then ordered a postponement-not for three weeks but three days. Unhappily, but feeling they could do nothing else, the five registered for the Assembly, cracked the united front of China's "third parties" against...
...coalition Government (i.e., a national council). Instead they suddenly proposed to discuss a cease-fire order through a three-man committee set up last January, dormant since June and now composed of General George Marshall, Communist Negotiator Chou En-lai and the National Government's General Hsu Yung-chang. By cease-fire the Communists meant the return to Communist control of all territory won by the Government in the past six weeks. They flatly declared that if the fighting were not stopped, and the Government persisted in its "unilateral" plans for a National Assembly in November, they would call...
Those versed in the subtleties of Chinese politics believe that the public announcement of Chang's re-education program is not without significance...