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Tradition was invoked. Said Hsin Ming Wan Pao: In the old days when sedan chairs met on a path, the coolies shouted: "Yu pien chou!-Keep to the right!" In Manchu days, Shih Chieh Jih Pao noted, all officials entered the Imperial court on the right-hand side. Said the official Chung Yang Jih Pao: "Keeping to the left is not our ancient system. ... In the old Chinese dictionary . . . right meant high, good, strength. . . . The right occupation is the high occupation, the right party is the government party. Left means inconvenience, unrighteousness, debasement; the left way means the evil...
From Chungking to Yenan went an invitation: would Communist leaders Mao Tse-tung, Chou Enlai, Tung Pi-wu, Lin Tsu-han, Chen Shao-yu and Teng Yingchao (Mrs. Chou Enlai) attend the July meeting of the People's Political Council, which will plan a national constitutional assembly? From Yenan to Chungking went a curt reply...
...American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas). Last week, waiting in Washington, Jayne had his worries. About Peking: "I hope [the Japs] treat it like Paris." About the temples and museum in Honan Province: what of the priceless, encrusted Shang and Chou bronzes? As for Japan: "There is some wonderful old wooden architecture there...
...General Chou headed north, U.S. Ambassador Hurley flew south. He was bound for Washington, presumably to report the failure of a mission...
This week a powerful voice echoed General Chou. Growled Moscow's Pravda: Chungking's recent governmental reforms were "no more than a reshuffling of the cards." China's war effort lagged because Chiang Kai-shek had failed to solve Chungking's "internal political crisis" and "democratize the state...