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Tickets for Life. CNRRA gets food to hungry people in two ways: 1) through porridge lines thrice daily, and in "soft rice" (flour and vegetable paste) kitchens set up in old temples or deserted buildings; 2) as pay for work on highway-building projects. The Pao Chang (district political bosses) give out tickets for porridge lines "on the basis of greatest need." Women and children by the score, without the magic tickets, stand outside the kitchens and beg in vain...
Invitation to Leave. At 5 p.m. that day Mayor Yung gave a banquet for Russians and Chinese. Many toasts were drunk; but a ghost sat at the groaning board. The Russians complained that the Chinese made many "transparent allusions" to the murder of Chinese Engineer Chang Hsin-fu, killed near Fushun last January. The Chinese believe the Russians were responsible. The Russians believe that Chinese Communists were guilty. Reported Chneider: "The Chinese kept telling us that they would guarantee our safety to Mukden, and then the Chinese would remind us that the Red Army gave the same pledge to their...
...Association." In return they receive such benefits as $2.50 toward funeral expenses. There is also a Ricksha Pullers' Guild, organized in 1925. In Shanghai it claims 10,000 out of 60,000 pullers. Its membership fee is 5?; its boss is an oratorical, brown-gowned Kuomintang man named Chang. It was Chang's union which drew up and sent to the Government a petition voicing the ricksha men's fear and doubt over the plan to abolish rickshas...
...Proving Ground. The test of the experiment was the conference on the military truce, in which the Special Envoy sat as chairman and mediator. On his left was General Chou Enlai, the Communists' veteran No. 1 negotiator; on his right was General Chang Chun, the Government's progressive-minded governor of Szechwan. There was a variation in this setup during the conference on military reorganization. Then Marshall sat only as adviser. General Chou spoke for the Communists; General Chang Chih-chung, onetime aide-de-camp to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, carried on for the Government...
...field teams were a key ingredient in Marshall's experiment. They soon found their task rugged; local commanders were still skirmishing, blocking communications, endangering the whole program. On March 1. the Special Envoy, accompanied by Generals Chou En-lai and Chang Chih-chung, left Happiness Gardens for 3,500 miles of wicked winter flying over north China. In less than a week he visited ten cities and towns, whirled through inspections, receptions and 15-course banquets, heard himself extolled by banner-waving greeters as "Terror of the Evildoers. . . . First Lord of the Warlords. . . . Most Fairly [sic] Friend of China...