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Sir: During the days of the united front in China (1938-39) before the Stalin-Matsu-oka pact, my husband [George Fitch] went to Yenan from Chungking with Chou Enlai.
A Guy Named Joe. Through the next nine years the accomplished actor with the smooth face and charming manner gave his greatest performance. Living in Chungking's poor district, exuding modesty, humility and the shine of honesty, he worked as liaison man between the Communists, the Nationalists and the...
Wu, with a long career of service behind him (mayor of wartime Chungking, postwar mayor of Shanghai), still has hopes for the Nationalist cause. "But if the Gimo will press for these needed reforms . . ." said he, "the Chinese people will gladly back the Nationalist government. If he does not do...
In the summer of 1952, the Communists completed the first new line on the way to Russia, a 314-mile stretch between Chungking and Chengtu (see map). That fall they completed a 216-mile roller coaster across 1,000 bridges and viaducts from Tienshui, terminus of the old main line...
Released when Chiang Kai-shek negotiated a nonaggression pact with Russia in 1937, Chiang Ching-kuo was put in charge of rehabilitating a big district in Kiangsi which had been under Communist rule, and of reindoctrinating its 3,000,000 inhabitants. Even his detractors admit he was outstandingly successful. During...