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Before a joint session of the powerful National Defense Council and the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee, the Generalissimo delivered an epochal address on foreign policy. It was the logical sequence to the treaty of friendship and alliance negotiated in Moscow by his dynamic brother-in-law and trouble-shooter-in-chief, Premier T. V. Soong (see INTERNATIONAL...
...interview with TIME Correspondent Annalee Jacoby, the Generalissimo voiced his own, and his nation's high hopes. "I am very optimistic," he said. On the eve of important talks with the Chinese Communists, he felt that a peaceful unity could be achieved. He was firm in his ruling on the Communist demand that the convocation of a National Assembly to launch constitutional government be postponed. "The National Assembly,"' said he, "will be convened as scheduled...
...Generalissimo saw other domestic problems ahead, but none that was insurmountable. The return to normal conditions might take three to five years. But his mind was on the long-range question of China's international position...
Clerks packed up documents for the return. Lights burned late as administrators wrestled with the problems of transport and relief, and with the larger problem of adjusting a nation to a new era. At the top of the pyramid of state moved the alert, taut, indefatigable Generalissimo, the first architect of victory and now the first hope of peace...
...Generalissimo was pledged to establish the social and humanistic democracy envisaged by Sun Yatsen. He no longer sought unity by the sword. In 1941 he had proclaimed: "At no future time could there conceivably be another campaign for the suppression of the Communists." Last March he had reaffirmed his policy of seeking "a political solution" to the Communist problem...