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A tall man with a weathered, homely face, in which there was the visible touch of greatness, stepped briskly down the ramp of the plane from China. Three months, almost to the hour, after he had left for Chungking, U.S. Special Envoy George Catlett Marshall was back in Washington. He...
The Experiment. George Marshall had just donned the mufti of retirement when the call came from Washington for one more great task. One day last November he was at his Leesburg (Va.) farm, where he takes a countryman's joy in pruning trees, growing sweet corn and keeping compost...
For his experiment in applied democracy, the Special Envoy set up his main laboratory in Chungking, in a Western-style villa of faced stone called "Happiness Gardens," above the confluence of the Kialing and the Yangtze. Into the living room, deeply carpeted and warmed against the damp Szechwan winter by...
In Chungking the Chinese Government signed a new treaty with France. The weakened Fourth Republic gave up its old extraterritoriality rights in China. It also agreed to special privileges for China in French Indo-China-a free port at Haiphong and railway rights from the Indo-China coast to the...
In a Chungking office, floodlights flanked a wooden desk. One after another, in businesslike fashion, three soldiers sat down at the desk and signed a document. The three soldiers were U.S. General of the Army George C. Marshall, in blouse and pinks; Chinese Government General Chang Chih-chung, in dress...