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New Man Up. Thus to the world's notice last week came a Chinese of whom the world would doubtless hear more: General Chang Chun (58 but looking younger), Governor of rich Szechwan (Chungking's province), leader of Nanking's moderate Political Science Group, friend of Chiang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Hao Hao! | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

The A.G.R.S. recovery teams soon found that they had to become rivermen, mountain climbers, explorers, bush diplomats and detectives. A.G.R.S. men, almost one-third of them Chinese-Americans, went out in groups of from three to ten. They traveled by jeep, mule, native pony, oxcart, sampan or on foot, were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: The Gleaners | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

Throughout the Chinese War, American emissaries with rare exception were willing to identify peace in China with the only stability that this nation had ever known. A succession of peacemakers, led by the Indian-fighter Hurley, allowed the de jure status of the Kuomintang government to whitewash the true structure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 2/4/1947 | See Source »

A China National Aviation Corp. DC-3 with 18 people aboard was long overdue on a flight to Chungking. In Colombia, another DC-3 airliner with 17 aboard disappeared on a flight to the Barranca Bermeja oilfields from Bogota. The bodies of four crew members and $2,000,000 in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Interrupted Plans | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

Reinforced by American military aid, the nationalist armies of Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek are currently grinding down the resistance of Chinese Communists in a grim civil war for the control of China. Ostensibly, Chiang will introduce a progressive, democratic government when China emerges from the maelstrom. Taken in by slick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrong Horse | 12/13/1946 | See Source »

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