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...week of Nationalist victories in China's civil war. Government forces pressed the Communists hard on nearly all fronts, were rapidly driving a wedge between Yenan and Kalgan, the key Communist bases. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's forces also opened an all-out drive to recapture North China's vital communications network, had already regained control of the important Peiping-Cheng-teh railroad through the seizure of Kupehkow, strategic Great Wall pass...
...long last, the U.S. seemed about ready for a massive decision - whether to get all the way in or all the way out of China. The question: should the U.S. throw its full support behind Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government or permit China (with its nearly 500 million people and vast resources) to become, directly or indirectly, a Soviet satellite? From Nanking came reports that General George Marshall had asked for an updating of U.S. opinion of the Chinese situation and an estimate of probable popular reaction to various alternative U.S. moves...
...China the civil war flamed briskly. It was a week of military setbacks for the Communists. After capturing Chengteh with surprising ease, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's armies were closing in on Chihfeng, last big Communist base in Jehol. Purpose of the campaign: to clear the railroad from Peiping to Mukden and to free from Communist threat the Government corridor from North China to Manchuria. The Jehol offensive also put flank pressure on Kalgen, capital of Chahar province and the Communists' No.1 base...
...Nationalist Government made eleventh-hour efforts for peace. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek proposed a five-man supercommittee (headed by U.S. Ambassador J. Leighton Stuart) to work out a plan for a coalition government with the Communists. The Communists agreed to participate on the committee if they were left undisturbed in North China. Since the Communist grip on North China -and on the main railroad arteries-was a major issue between Yenan and Nanking, this condition was not so simple as it seemed...
...Generalissimo Stalin, 50,000 Tuvinians indited a note of thanks for allowing them to withdraw from the capitalist world and enter the Soviet Union. The occasion was the 25th anniversary of the country's former independence. Tannu Tuva (pop. 65,000) is a Mongolian farming, mining and cattle raising area about the size of Nevada, between Siberia and Outer Mongolia. Its assumption to Russia was a fact unknown to the rest of the world until it read the names of Tuvinian delegates on the election lists to the Supreme Soviet last October...