Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press conference in Manhattan, General Carlson and Russophile Singer Paul Robeson, cochairmen of the National Committee to Win the Peace, announced a San Francisco conference for next month to urge withdrawal of U.S. troops from China, withdrawal of U.S. support from Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Government. Said Cochairman Carlson: "The only democratic force [in China] is that being fostered by the Communists. People in this country don't like that word Communist; but I've learned it's wise to go behind words and find out about actions...
...long last, the U.S. seemed about ready for a massive decision - whether to get all the way in or all the way out of China. The question: should the U.S. throw its full support behind Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government or permit China (with its nearly 500 million people and vast resources) to become, directly or indirectly, a Soviet satellite? From Nanking came reports that General George Marshall had asked for an updating of U.S. opinion of the Chinese situation and an estimate of probable popular reaction to various alternative U.S. moves...
...coup backfired, as Li Lisan had predicted. The Chinese proletariat did not rise in support of the Canton Soviet. Instead, Chiang Kai-shek's troops quickly mopped up the insurrectionists...
...Nationalist Government made eleventh-hour efforts for peace. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek proposed a five-man supercommittee (headed by U.S. Ambassador J. Leighton Stuart) to work out a plan for a coalition government with the Communists. The Communists agreed to participate on the committee if they were left undisturbed in North China. Since the Communist grip on North China -and on the main railroad arteries-was a major issue between Yenan and Nanking, this condition was not so simple as it seemed...
...week's end Communist General Chou En-lai demanded that the U.S. end all aid to Nationalist China or openly support Chiang Kai-shek in "the total all-out civil war." He attacked particularly the sale to the Nanking Government of $800 million of surplus U.S. civilian goods left in the Far East by departing U.S. forces...