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...Suchow was on foot. The Communists had cut the railroad line; no civilian airlines were operating; automobile travel was out; the National Defense Ministry had told correspondents to wait awhile. Gruin looked out of the office window and got his cue. Across the street lived affable, English-speaking General Chou Chih-jou, commander in chief of the Chinese air force. Gruin sent a note to the General, who was lunching at home, asking for an airlift for his men. Ten minutes later the General phoned to ask if they could leave that afternoon...
...beat with their eyewitness report of Mukden's last hours, were in Shanghai. The General agreed to a next morning departure. Birns and Rowan boarded a civilian cargo plane at Shanghai, but a ground haze delayed the landing at Nanking until 10 a.m., almost three hours after General Chou's transport plane was to leave for the Suchow battlefront. Gruin spent the interval conning the Chinese airmen into waiting for the overdue plane. At length, the TIME-LIFE team got off for Suchow and their report back to Gruin not only established the fact that the Communists were...
...mutineers read Chiang's private diary; there, it appeared, Chiang showed as much determination to fight Japan as they had themselves. A consultation took place among the captors. Communist General Chou En-lai was invited over from the Red positions nearby. His instructions from Moscow: Chiang was to be returned to Nanking...
Some no miles away in Sian, Shensi's Governor Chu Shao-chou, unable to reach Huang Ti's tomb this year, led a Nationalist ceremony of "distant obeisance...
Early next morning a Democratic League man hopped into the green Chrysler sedan inherited last year from departing Communist Negotiator Chou Enlai, and drove to the Soviet Embassy. He entered the Embassy with an interesting box, came back to his car without it. Fledgling plainclothesmen got their ears scorched when they reported his visit. "Ai ya!" groaned a Chinese detective superintendent, "Why didn't you pretend a collision, yell, stop the car, claim, the box-anything...