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Late that evening, General Marshall called on Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. For two hours they conferred. The Generalissimo's decision: the Government was strong enough to yield on the issue of Jehol and Chahar...
...Then Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek made a speech to the nation. Once again he demanded the nationalization of China's Communist armies, the ending of a state-within-a-state. "The people's most persistent aspirations," he said, "are stability and reconstruction. ... If there is more than one supreme authority who can issue military and administrative orders, if the means of communication and transportation are destroyed here and there . . . the people can never have their aspirations realized...
...same time the Generalissimo proposed a political broadening of the National Assembly (constitutional convention), which will begin the transformation of China into a constitutional democracy. The Assembly will meet...
Chungking estimates that in the provinces occupied by Japan 30 million Chinese became opium, heroin, morphine or hashish addicts. Wherever the enemy advanced, he deliberately undid the patient, progressive work of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Opium Suppression Commission. This agency, aided by the indefatigable New Life Movement, had gone far toward stamping out the cultivation, sale and use of narcotics...
Since the Japanese surrender last August, Generalissimo Chiang's Government has cracked down on opium dens in Peiping and Tientsin, ordered the destruction of poppy fields. All addicts must give up the habit in eight months or suffer severe punishment. A grower of poppies, a purveyor, or a pill-smoker caught in his third offense may be punished by death...