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...days later the Japanese Commander in Chief in China, Lieut. General Yasuji Okamura, agreed to surrender all his sea, air and ground forces, from Manchuria's southern border to Formosa and northern Indo-China. Next day, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Central Government troops entered Nanking. They were back in China's capital just seven years, nine months and five days since they had been forced to leave the city to a brutal fate that shook the world...
...temporary capital in Chungking the Generalissimo whirled through a week of high statesmanship. In a brief ceremony at the National Government building, he signed the United Nations Charter. When he put down his brush, he made his characteristic short, quick bow, murmured: "Hao hao, hao hao-very good, very good!" He looked deeply satisfied...
...loudspeaker carried the Generalissimo's voice from the broadcasting studio to gathering crowds outside. Into the studio, as he spoke, crept faint sounds of firecrackers popping, people shouting...
...minutes the Generalissimo was finished. Then, for a moment, the erect shoulders slumped, the facial muscles sagged, the eyes tired. It was a second of relaxation that epitomized eight years of elemental effort...
Afterwards, when the Generalissimo strode out into the sun, a tide of joyous humanity engulfed him. The people jammed the streets on each side of his Cadillac sedan. They crawled through police lines, hung from balconies, yelled from rooftops, held their children high to see the sight. Slowly the Generalissimo, now smiling happily, passed through the wave of jubilation. Hands were thrust in victory salutes as the people shouted: "Chiang . . . Chung kuo . . . wan sui . . . wan wan sui!-Chiang . . . China . . . live ten thousand years . . . live ten thousand ten thousand years...