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China's government-along with millions of people who bore whole industries, piece by piece, to safety-moved back country to the gorges of the Yangtze. Wu became mayor of Chungking, the new capital. For two years, the city (whose wartime population grew from 200,000 to well over...
Night after night, Japanese bombs tore bigger & bigger patches out of the maze of ramshackle houses. Sewage piled up in gutters, disease spread and Chungking rats grew fat and impudent. The air-raid warning system was complicated: in addition to sirens, colored lanterns were hung from poles at night (when...
Stolidly, fire fighters and policemen remained above the ground in the city during the raids. Mayor Wu was usually in their midst, dashing from fire to fire, from crisis to crisis. He became a sort of glorified La Guardia; to Chungking's Chinese -and to many an American-he...
Central Executive Committee and replaced it with a "Central Reform Committee." Kuomintang spokesmen carefully explained that this move finally ended the power of the "CC clique," named for the Brothers Chen Li-fu and Chen Kuo-fu. Many U.S. observers have blamed the CC group for much of the inefficiency...
The case differed in one important respect from the Hiss-Chambers case that was to develop more than three years later. There was no evidence that Jaffe had passed on any of the documents to the Soviet agents. As far as Government agents could tell, he was using the stolen...