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General George Marshall, back in his Chungking mediation job, wanted to find out the price for which the newly rampaging Chinese Communists would settle. He asked Lo Lung-chi, head of the pinko Democratic League, to find out. Lo had a talk with Communist Negotiator Chou Enlai, then Lo spilled...
Chiang Kai-shek was on the defensive. Harbin and Tsitsihar had fallen last week to the Reds. At a Chungking tea party the Generalissimo decided to postpone calling the National Assembly because the Communists refused to participate. Some of Chiang's advisers feared that time was now on the...
Chungking observers believed that Chiang was willing to make further concessions if he could find the solution to one all-important question: if the Government and the Reds reached a new accord, what was to prevent the Reds from violating that too, creating another "changed situation" and demanding a still...
For six long years of war, news from embattled China funneled through the tumbledown, mud-&-lath buildings of the Chungking Press Hostel. Last week, the last of the foreign-press corps followed the Central Government to Nanking. The bamboo-fenced compound looked as dreary and forsaken as an empty schoolyard...
When the ruinous Jap air raid of May 4, 1939 flattened 25% of Chungking's downtown buildings, the Government had turned over the former Pa Hsien Middle School compound to the press. All the place ever had in its favor was its central location. Air-raid dugouts, Chiang Kai...