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Jung Yao. Last month, in Chungking, Liu and 40 other cotton-garbed soldiers climbed, grinning, into a shiny American monster and flew off into the east. It was a jung yao (glorious) day for him. Shanghai was the most wondrous place he had ever seen. Above all, the Japs he...
Last week on China's lucky "Double Tenth"-the tenth day of the tenth month-came the 34th anniversary of the Republic. In Shanghai, the populace went wild with joy released, and the city fathers spent $5,000,000 (about $7,000 U.S.) on street decorations. In Chungking, cheering...
Somewhat less elated and carefree were the men who held the fate of nearly a fifth of mankind in their hands. On the eve of the national anniversary they were seated around a banqueting table in Chungking. Guest of honor was Mao Tse-tung, the Communist leader from Yenan, a...
Chiang had the U.S. emphatically behind him, backing, building, buttressing. Now, if ever, Mao had to agree-or fight. Would he come back to Chungking and try again? Last week Washington unexpectedly announced that dynamic Ambassador Hurley, who had brought Mao and Chiang together once, would soon return to China...
Chungking dispatches maintained that