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When China's Nationalists retreated from their refugee capital of Chungking last November, Acting President Li Tsung-jen did not go with them. Instead, Li took a plane to Hong Kong, announced he would enter a hospital for treatment of an old stomach ailment. Ever since then, Nationalist China...
When Mr. Henry Wallace visited Chungking after Moscow ... in 1944, I had the pleasure of having a brief conversation with him at a dinner party . . . Before the dinner, while all the guests were viewing the sight across the Chialing River from the veranda of the host's residence, Wallace...
As the Communists bore down on the Nationalist shadow capital of Chungking, Acting President Li Tsung-jen took off on an inspection tour of his native Kwangsi province. Last week, he stepped off a plane in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, announced he would enter a hospital for...
Acting President Li Tsung-jen and Premier Yen Hsi-shan flew to Chungking, 700 miles northwest on a Yangtze cliffside, were greeted there by thousands of bright "Welcome" flags. But the famed capital of Free China in the war against the Japanese seemed as dispirited as the rest of non...
The best remaining Nationalist army on the mainland, some 200,000 troops under doughty General Pai Chung-hsi, who had screened Canton for six months, was retreating westward to the general's native province of Kwangsi. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had chosen Formosa for his own last stand, though...