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...past decade China's most celebrated political prisoner has been Chang Hsueh-liang, better known as the "Young Marshal." Son of fabulous "Old Marshal" Chang Tso-lin, who drank tiger blood and warlorded it over Manchuria until his assassination in 1928, the Young Marshal kidnaped Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in the fantastic Sian incident of 1936. Eventually he freed the Gissimo and surrendered himself, crying: "I, Hsueh-liang, am by nature rude and uncouth. . . . Blushing with shame, I receive from you . . . the punishment I deserve...
...Moscow, Generalissimo Stalin reviewed a parade of 2,000,000. Proclaimed Russia's dictator: "We should not forget for a single minute the intrigues of international reaction, which is hatching plans of a new war. ... It is necessary to be constantly vigilant, to protect, as the apple of one's eye, the armed forces and defensive power of our country...
Chiang Kai-shek was on the defensive. Harbin and Tsitsihar had fallen last week to the Reds. At a Chungking tea party the Generalissimo decided to postpone calling the National Assembly because the Communists refused to participate. Some of Chiang's advisers feared that time was now on the side of the Communists; because hungry, strife-torn China might blame the Government for failure to restore the peace the Reds had broken...
...people, "the great Kapitza will build you a bomb in no time." According to Russian reports and rumors, he was buzzing around like a June bug, supervising the building of cyclotrons, studying cosmic rays, taking full scientific charge of the Soviet's own Manhattan (or Moscow) Project. Generalissimo Stalin was said to have called him into his presence and offered him everything he needed...
...YORK--A security Council sub-committee tonight invited all 51 members of the United National to submit pertinent evidence on the Polish charge that the Spanish regime of Generalissimo Francisco Franco endangers world peace...