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...hitched his wagon to the Generalissimo's star, won the rising leader's trust by tireless intelligence work for the Kuomintang Army. In 1934 he organized China's Bureau of Investigation & Statistics. In time it became one of the world's biggest undercover agencies. It planted operatives from Bali to Burma, from Singapore to Sinkiang. It specialized in espionage and counterespionage; it kept watch on Communists, foreigners. Behind the Japanese lines its eyes were flower girls, coolies and ricksha men. In the most lurid Fu Manchu tradition, it reported to Tai Li with invisible ink messages...
Challenge Ahead. No single mancertainly no foreigner-could have preserved the victory in China. The Chinese masses passionately wanted what U.S. policy wanted for China: a strong, independent, unified, democratic nation. This intense popular demand restrained Chinese Communist intransigence and gave Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek a chance to set in motion the machinery of political reconstruction. But China needed outside help-guidance, mediation and the confidence of a strong friend who would not exact a price by undermining Chinese independence. For three months Marshall had filled the role of the strong friend. The morning after his arrival...
...right was General Chang Chun, the Government's progressive-minded governor of Szechwan. There was a variation in this setup during the conference on military reorganization. Then Marshall sat only as adviser. General Chou spoke for the Communists; General Chang Chih-chung, onetime aide-de-camp to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, carried on for the Government...
...March 11 after a final conference with Generalissimo Chiang and Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, U.S. commander in the China Theater, the Special Envoy emplaned for the U.S. At the very last moment, he scored another success. Government and Communist negotiators agreed to extend the truce machinery to Manchuria. There the slowly evacuating Russians have left behind a situation which George Marshall openly Calls "critical." Meanwhile in Chungking this week, Communist General Chou kept the pot simmering by accusing the Kuomintang of seeking to continue "one-party dictatorship...
Ambition & Avarice. Having made his plea to the U.S. Government and the U.S. people, Special Envoy Marshall planned to return to China. The Chinese wanted him back; his presence, they felt, was the best assurance that his work would not be undone. Generalissimo Chiang spoke for his nation when he said last week: "Our confidence in him is unbounded." For George Marshall viewed China, the U.S. and the world much as they were viewed nearly 100 years ago by his distant kinsman, Humphrey Marshall, U.S. Commissioner to the Celestial Empire in 1853-54. Wrote Cousin Humphrey...