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Barracks occupied by the Japs were foul. The marines rolled up their sleeves, scri-bbed, swept and disinfected. The Chinese cooperated. Mayor Chang Ting-erh broadcast orders to the citizens: "No gypping." The Red Cross took over the sturdily built German Club and made it into "the finest serviceman's club west of San Francisco...
...Peiping restaurant one day this week the proprietor, a serene, middle-aged Chinese named Mr. Chang, sat down at our table and talked of China's need and longing for peace after its years of war. Then he said: "I think we will have civil war. I think it is God's opinion...
Plans & Men. In Mr. Chang's opinion, there is still one way for China to have peace: "It depends on how much you Americans help us. It depends on whether you give us the supplies we need." Mr. Chang does not expect that the U.S. will give China's Central Government all it needs to subdue the Communists militarily. Neither do U.S. military men in China. They expect to duck out as quickly as possible and go home. If they do, the U.S. must admit a great failure...
...Ching-kuo, Chiang Kai-shek's elder son, who has a Russian wife and used to be at odds with his father, but is now one of the National Government's up-&-coming younger men and the Foreign Affairs Commissioner for the Northeast. A third was liberal Chang Kia-ngau, a Shanghai banker and ex-Minister of Communications, who has become one of the Generalissimo's close advisers. The Russian conferees were headed by their Far East commanders, Marshal Alexander M. Vasilevsky and Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky. Vague reports said the talks were "most cordial...
...national anniversary they were seated around a banqueting table in Chungking. Guest of honor was Mao Tse-tung, the Communist leader from Yenan, a man with destiny written in his strong face. Opposite him sat one of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's chief negotiators, shrewd General Chang Chih-chung. For 45 seesawing days the two men, backed by their aides, had pitted plan against plan to heal the breach between Communist China and Nationalist China. Now the time had arrived to give the outcome to China and the world...