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...Humbly Invite." In Chungking, Generalissimo Chiang held tense conferences with U.S. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, commander of all U.S. forces in China, and with U.S. Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley. Then he moved swiftly...
...Japanese prepared to lay down their arms in China, Yenan crackled with defiance. Communist Commander in Chief Chu Teh roughly rejected the nominal authority of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. To Chungking he wired: your order not to take independent action in accepting Japanese surrender (TIME, Aug. 20) "does not conform to the national interest. . . . You have issued the wrong order, very wrong, indeed, and we have to reject it resolutely...
...Then the Generalissimo made one more try for unity. To Yenan's leader, Mao Tse-tung, he wired: "May I humbly invite you to come to Chungking immediately? We will discuss things in person. This involves our national welfare. Please do not decline. Yours most anxiously...
Treaty of Friendship. While Chiang grappled with "open rebellion," his brother-in-law, Premier T. V. Soong, hurried from the Kremlin to the White House. On & off since early July, he had been talking in Moscow with Generalissimo Joseph Stalin and Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov. In his pocket Premier Soong carried a signed treaty of friendship and alliance between Russia and China...
...Affair. Premier Soong, according to Paris, asked that Russia recognize the Chungking Government as the sole government of China; that Russia stop all deliveries of arms to the Chinese Communists and prevent Japanese arms from falling into their hands; that Russia must not support the Chinese Communist request for Generalissimo Chiang's removal...