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Invitations went last week to three countries-Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia-which scurried under the wire by March 1, the deadline for war declarations set at Yalta. Syria and Lebanon also beat the deadline, but were not invited (they are still juridically French mandates). Korea's Provisional Government in...
China took another momentous step toward democracy. In Chungking, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek opened the first session of the Preparatory Commission for Inauguration of Constitutional Government. He announced:
At the last moment, the Generalissimo personally took part in the talks. He could not, he pointed out, tolerate an armed state within the state. He was the steward of China's destiny. His charge had come from the great Sun Yatsen, and he would yield nothing of the...
At week's end General Chou emplaned for Yenan. In the Communist capital, for the first time since 1934 a Party Congress was gathering; momentous decisions might be reached. When would Chou En-lai return to Chungking? Darkly he answered: "Not so soon."
This week a powerful voice echoed General Chou. Growled Moscow's Pravda: Chungking's recent governmental reforms were "no more than a reshuffling of the cards." China's war effort lagged because Chiang Kai-shek had failed to solve Chungking's "internal political crisis" and "democratize...