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...Premier Sun Fo's first press conference in Canton, he denied a rumored rift between himself and Li: "Technically, the capital remains in Nanking. The government is just functioning in a different place...
China's new Premier, Sun Fo, stepped gingerly from a shiny black Packard at the entrance to Nanking's green-tiled Executive Yuan one morning last week. Leaning on a cane to take the weight off his left leg, from which a two-pound tumor had recently been removed, he limped up three flights of stairs to an unheated conference room,'where his cabinet waited formally to assume office...
...Hope. What would the new cabinet's policy be? Earlier in the week Sun Fo had told foreign newsmen: "Surrender? Absolutely no surrender!" In the next breath he had said: "We have to fight on until we can secure an honorable peace." Now, in his first cabinet session, Sun explained further...
...Fate. In segmented North China, General Fu Tso-yi continued to play a strange sort of game with the Reds. A Communist broadcast had condemned Fu (along with Chiang Kaishek, Sun Fo, most of the new cabinet and others) as a war criminal, deserving a "just penalty." The broadcast added, however, that Fu "could lessen his fate somewhat" if he would immediately surrender Peiping and Tientsin...
Early this week Sun Fo finally succeeded in forming a cabinet. It contained some known to favor appeasing the Communists, but it also contained thoroughly anti-Communist Chen Li-fu. Observers recalled, however, that Chen has long opposed the Gimo's campaign to wipe out Communism in North China. Chen wanted to organize a strong anti-Communist free China south of the Yangtze...