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...Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was tied down in Chungking, so he asked Madame Chiang to be his good-will envoy extraordinary to Manchuria. It was the first big job she had undertaken on her own in three years. At Changchun, the Manchurian capital, it was 14° below zero and the snow lay deep. Bundled in a beaver coat, fur cap and ankle-high rubber boots, China's beautiful First Lady deplaned from her private C-47, smiled and waved to a waiting crowd...
...three days Madame was whisked by Russian and Chinese officials through a good-will round of luncheons, receptions, military reviews and charitable visits. For Red Army heroes, Madame brought Chinese decorations and special Chinese candies. At a Red Army banquet, the Russians toasted her and the Generalissimo in Manchurian brandy. She responded with port wine and an earnest, delicately phrased Chinese wish...
...January 10 the 38 delegates to the P.C.C., an advisory body representing every shade of the nation's political color chart, had begun their task with cautious hope. Two notable events-a truce in the civil war, a bill of rights proclaimed by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek-augured well for their discussions. They debated with dignity and restraint, then sent their main problems to subcommittees for final recommendation. U.S. newsmen reported that the democratic process was genuinely in operation...
Democratic Rights. The Political Consultation Conference, set up last fall by Generalissimo Chiang and Communist Chairman Mao Tse-tung to work out China's political unity, thus began its task under favorable auspices. Besides the truce, the P.C.C. heard other important news from the Generalissimo. The Government was taking steps to insure democratic civil rights, promote local self-government, curb the secret police, grant equality to "all legal parties," release all political prisoners except "traitors" and those guilty of "injurious acts against the Republic...
Next morning the truce was drafted. From the rostrum of the opening session of the Political Consultation Conference, the Generalissimo proclaimed the news amid a thunder of applause. Cried Chungking's Ta Kung Pao: "General Marshall . . . has achieved merit of global proportions...