Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Assistant. Between talks, the Special Envoy walked the streets or climbed the steps of cliffside Chungking. Sometimes he would drive a few miles out to the paddy fields, where a countryman far from his own acres could sample another good earth.
The Experiment. George Marshall had just donned the mufti of retirement when the call came from Washington for one more great task. One day last November he was at his Leesburg (Va.) farm, where he takes a countryman's joy in pruning trees, growing sweet corn and keeping compost...
For his experiment in applied democracy, the Special Envoy set up his main laboratory in Chungking, in a Western-style villa of faced stone called "Happiness Gardens," above the confluence of the Kialing and the Yangtze. Into the living room, deeply carpeted and warmed against the damp Szechwan winter by...
The wisdom of the American Founding Father, spoken at a time of life which in itself commands veneration in China, so impressed all readers that copies were soon circulated throughout Chungking.
"Terror of the Evildoers." Nineteen days after George Marshall's arrival in Chungking, the Government and the Communists signed a truce. Six weeks later they signed a formal agreement to reduce and merge their armies (from 300 divisions to 60, within 18 months). But no man understood better than...