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...Paris last week a French writer touched off a political prediction that went fizzing fiercely around the world. The writer: Yves Delbars, specialist in Russian affairs for the conservative Paris Presse. The prediction: Generalissimo Joseph Stalin, ill with an old liver ailment aggravated by fatigue, will retire from "all active and direct participation" in the Soviet Government this winter...
...negotiations between Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Communist leader Mao Tse-tung take place in a land obsessed by the vision of peace and victory. Pressure upon both negotiating parties . . . comes . . . from the very depths of Chinese political consciousness. People are sick to death of war, profiteering, exile, bloodshed and malnutrition. They are entranced by a vision of China in its entirety, handed back to them intact, its industries unravaged by wars of liberation, its sovereignty total and absolute...
...ease the burden, the Generalissimo suspended military conscription throughout the country for one year, promised land allotments to all veterans, decreed a land-tax holiday for one year in the once-occupied provinces and for the following year in unoccupied provinces. He went...
Answer, Concession. This was an answer to the Communists, who have demanded postponement of the Assembly scheduled to meet on Nov. 12. But the Generalissimo also made concessions. The Government, he said, would consult "all leaders" before convoking the Assembly, would also "consider a reasonable increase" in delegates. (Meanwhile, Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung, still conferring in Chungking with the Generalissimo, publicly reiterated the Communist demand for a meeting of all political parties to arrange elections for the Assembly...
Then, in a ringing affirmation of an old policy, the Generalissimo pledged the legalization of all political parties and the abolition of wartime restrictions on free press, speech and association. "Only thus," he declared, "can we tread the path of democracy traversed by the United States and Great Britain and establish a model democratic state in the Far East...