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China took another momentous step toward democracy. In Chungking, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek opened the first session of the Preparatory Commission for Inauguration of Constitutional Government. He announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Toward Democracy | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

...Main Problem. But the Generalissimo's optimism was tempered by his frank admission that "the Communist problem ... is the main problem to unity and constitutional government." He gave his Government's position in its bitter, dead locked negotiations with the Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Toward Democracy | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

This week the question of confirming Henry Wallace as Secretary of Commerce would be squarely before the Senate. But Ohio's Bob Taft, generalissimo of the anti-Wallace forces, did not wait. Last week he sent up a preliminary artillery barrage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Angle of Attack | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

...National Defense Council and Executive Yuan. To meet Yenan's demand for an all-party constitutional convention, Chungking offered to convoke an all-party meeting to consider "military and political unification pending a national congress." But when Chungking asked Yenan to put the Communist Army under Generalissimo Chiang, General Chou balked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: A House Divided | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...last moment, the Generalissimo personally took part in the talks. He could not, he pointed out, tolerate an armed state within the state. He was the steward of China's destiny. His charge had come from the great Sun Yatsen, and he would yield nothing of the ultimate responsibility for China's government. General Chou would not budge either. In Chungking's concessions he saw no termination of "one-party dictatorship." But the political crux of the matter was that Yenan's one-party dictatorship dared not, any more than Chungking, surrender control over the military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: A House Divided | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

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