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Suavity at Chungking. "You always struck me as being an effeminate type," one of his old schoolmasters said to Chou once. "How is it you could become a Communist?"
During the next nine years, while the two parties alternately talked peace or made open war on each other, Chou spent much of his time in Chungking, China's wartime capital, smoothly persuading China's U.S. allies (particularly the newsmen at the Press Hostel) of the Communists'...
Thirty Minutes. On the initiative of Chiang Kaishek, Marshall testified, all Chinese political parties-including the Communists-had agreed to confer about ways & means of unifying China. Marshall's directive said that the unification should be built around Chiang, and all Communist armies folded into his. It also provided...
Another Red success, as spectacular as Benito Mussolini's in the '20s, was to make China's trains run on time. Travelers on the Shanghai-Canton and Hankow-Canton runs also speak of clean sleeping berths, cheap, well-cooked meals, diners decorated with portraits of Stalin. The...
One incident from those years dramatically illustrated the way that attitude worked. In 1945 George Marshall was getting ready to depart on his special mission to Chungking. He awaited the President's instructions, and the War Department submitted a draft of what it would advise. The War Department would...