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The speaker was remarkable-the president of China's Legislative Yuan, Sun Fo, moderate, democratic-minded son of China's revolutionary leader, Sun Yatsen. The speech, delivered before the Kuomintang, was even more remarkable-an appeal to the Chungking Government to abandon its rightist position and pursue a...
From Chungking for the occasion came a scroll which, inscribed in President Chiang Kai-shek's own hand, bore a happy token for the future of China House and U.S.-Chinese friendship. Wrote the Generalissimo: "The way is one and the winds blow together."
Negotiations continue, but, said a Chungking spokesman: "It is like a Hottentot talking to an Eskimo."
Meanwhile reports persisted that Chungking was shaky. A crisis, or a political reorientation, might be approaching. What role would astute Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek play? What would the Chinese Communists do?
These questions might be answered in the next few weeks or months. For the present, observers noted the curious fact that Chungking's tight censorship last week permitted the filing of a report that Communist China has grown impressively (see below).