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Last week, in Chungking, the People's Political Council concluded the most exciting and memorable meeting in its history. Purely an advisory body,* it had long been regarded as membered by impatient reformers. But this year the Council demanded a full accounting of China's wartime administration and...
¶ A more energetic foreign policy, with special emphasis on improving relations with Soviet Russia. (Chungking made a gesture in this direction last month when Sinkiang's anti-Soviet governor Shen Shihtsai was replaced by General Wu Chung-hsin, an expert conciliator. His nickname: Ho-shih-laoor"Old-Man...
¶ Liquidation of the U.S. investment of Chungking officials and use of the funds thus gained to improve Army conditions.
In Chungking Chinese and foreigners alike felt their deep gloom give way to optimism. Cabled TIME's Theodore H. White: "Criticism by the P.P.C. passes any in intensity and disapproval. There's an increasing desire for unity and an unbudging reluctance to concede an inch on either side...
In the flood of pent-up Chinese criticism loosed by the recent relaxation of Government censorship, one newspaper and its editor have been outstanding. The newspaper is China's leading independent, Chungking's Ta Rung Pao. Its brilliant, self-educated editor is slight, bespectacled Wang Yun-sheng. Recent...