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Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was tied down in Chungking, so he asked Madame Chiang to be his good-will envoy extraordinary to Manchuria. It was the first big job she had undertaken on her own in three years. At Changchun, the Manchurian capital, it was 14° below zero and...
In the small hours before dawn, 5,000 students gathered for a political parade through Chungking. They were dressed in the motley of China's youth-family hand-me-downs, G.I. castoffs, ragged patches. Many had walked as much as 20 miles to the city. A university dean accompanied...
Exuberantly, waving placards, urged on by cheerleaders, the students snaked through Chungking's winding main street. No one stopped them, no one dispersed them. They blocked all traffic, engulfed even the coolie coal-and-water bearers, whose makeway cries of "Hai! Hai!" were lost in the din of shouting...
In China, where he began a four-year stint in 1938, he won friends and influenced people for Britain at a time when his country's stock was painfully low. His hilltop home overlooking Chungking was a haven for Chinese politicians and intellectuals who wanted good books and elegant...
Next morning the truce was drafted. From the rostrum of the opening session of the Political Consultation Conference, the Generalissimo proclaimed the news amid a thunder of applause. Cried Chungking's Ta Kung Pao: "General Marshall . . . has achieved merit of global proportions. . . ."