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...from Iran of U.S. troops (which had been supplying Russia with Lend-Lease) by a blast against the Iranian Government. Farther east, the overheated Russo-Chinese relations promised to cool as, after a fortnight of negotiations in Moscow, China's Premier T. V. Soong flew east to Chungking, Generalissimo Joseph Stalin flew west to the Big Three conference in the ruins of Berlin (see INTERNATIONAL). But at week's end, the Chinese Communists seemed about to declare their independence of Chungking...
While Premier T. V. Soong flew back to Chungking from apparently fruitful talks with Generalissimo Joseph Stalin in Moscow, the Yenan radio broadcast startling news. Last week in Yenan 116 delegates from all the Communist areas of north, south and central China met in plenary session...
...Padilla-baiter was Vicente Lombardo Toledano, loud-speaking leftist chief of the powerful Latin American Federation of Labor. At San Francisco, declared Lombardo, Padilla had stooged for the U.S. State Department. He had an "anti-Soviet phobia"; his attacks on the Russian delegation had followed the propaganda line of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, pet hate of Latin American labor...
Immediately T. V. plunged into a round of diplomatic activity which might well mark a new era in Chinese-Russian relations. Within his first four days in Moscow, China's indefatigable Premier saw Generalissimo Stalin twice - with "most gratifying" results, said well-informed sources. He conferred three times with Ambassador Harriman. He was wined & dined by Molotov. He went to a performance of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. The audience claqued thunderously for his benefit...
...China needed U.S. economic aid. Military aid has been greatly increased, but economic help is still far short of China's needs. The Generalissimo hoped the U.S. would send more economic experts-"the more that come the greater will be our welcome. . . . Military and economic factors are equally important. If one is neglected the other will suffer. . . ." China's soldiers still needed weapons and supplies. In the Generalissimo's opinion, a properly equipped Chinese Army might shorten the war in Asia by a full year, cut in half the number of troops required to beat Japan...