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Last week, five days after his 62nd birthday, after three years and three months of isolated captivity, he found out. Rescued from his prison camp at Sian, 100 miles northeast of Mukden (TIME, Aug. 27), he flew into Chungking and a warm and wonderful welcome.
After the Grey Years. And this was just the beginning. After the grey years of captivity, Chungking seemed full of wonders. Like other rescued prisoners, the General was too tense at first to relax. He and the group who arrived with him ate hungrily but shyly, clumsy with knives & forks...
All Yenan flocked to the airfield to see nervous Mao Tse-tung take off for his unity conference with Chiang Kaishek. U.S. Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley had flown up from Chungking the night before (with two cases of Scotch) to escort the Communist leader. Mao hugged his little daughter, kissed...
Chiang Kai-shek was not on hand when Mao deplaned at Chungking. But the welcoming delegation included the Generalissimo's eldest son, brisk, Moscow-trained Chiang Ching-kuo. Someone asked Mao: "What do you think of the plane?" Said he, with noticeable lack of fervor: "Very efficient." Ambassador Hurley...
In 1919 the exiles organized a Pro visional Government at Shanghai. For two decades they had factional troubles. In 1942 they united again, under the Presidency of earnest, greying Kim Koo, who had taken refuge in Chungking, and won financial support and de facto recognition from Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. The...