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...Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week left the heat and din of Nanking for breezeswept Kuling, the mountain resort which used to be China's prewar summer capital. There he shed his uniform for a comfortable gown and strolled about the clean-swept, maple-shaded streets. Nevertheless, the political temperature continued to rise and the Government's discomfiture increased...
...Nanking insider sized up the crisis: "The trend of events indicates that the Generalissimo, while unwilling to risk an all-out, knockdown-dragout civil war is determined to push the Communists away from the railroads and out of economically important areas. The big question is whether the Generalissimo can keep the Communists bottled up on the sidelines while he achieves his objectives in a short time. If the going is tough the next two or three months, he will probably return to negotiation-provided hell does not pop beyond the possibility of control...
LaGuardia himself had sent a bluntly pleading cable to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek ("it might not be couched in diplomatic language, but I tried to make it so he would understand") demanding "personal and prompt" action about CNRRA. "[UNRRA's] purpose," cabled the Little Flower, "is to help the rehabilitation of China and not the financial rehabilitation of warehouses...
...rival representatives vainly continued their negotiations last week, the Nanking dopesters tried to guess what was in Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's mind. His bigger, better-equipped armies might score quick victories if they were unleashed. The reactionary clique within the Kuomintang clamored: "If [General Marshall] would only let us at the Communists we could clean them out in three to six months." (U.S. officers in China regard this estimate as optimistic...
...closest advisers felt he had decided on war. When he turned around and extended the two-week Manchurian truce by eight days, they were not so sure. Lo Lung-Chi, spokesman for the liberal Democratic League and one of China's keenest politicians, offered his analysis: "The Generalissimo is the kind of man who will rein in his horse at the edge of the cliff...