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¶Moscow might press the Chinese Communists to come to an agreement with the Chungking Government, thus scotching China's dangerous internal conflict.
Chinese troops followed up their capture of the Fourteenth Air Force base city of Liuchow (TIME, July 9) by closing in on four other onetime U.S. air bases-Paoking, Tanchuk, Kanhsien and "Kweilin. On the Indo-Chinese frontier, mountain troops extended their front to 160 miles. But at week'...
No communiques were issued, but high diplomatic sources said that T. V. and the Kremlin were discussing virtually all issues in which Moscow and Chungking have common concern. Speculation ranged over these possibilities:
¶In return for such help, Chungking might grant Moscow a warm-water naval base (presumably Port Arthur) and railway rights in Manchuria, thus restoring to Soviet Russia the privileges Japan had taken from her in 1905 and 1933.
The four-motored plane from Chungking came down at Moscow's airport. China's Premier T. V. Soong was the first to alight. He wore a blue suit, but not his horn-rimmed spectacles. Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov greeted him. The foreign colony stood by...