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...Whenever Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had a big decision to make, he liked to get away from his desk for quiet meditation. Early last month he went to the summer capital, Kuling, with Madame Chiang and a small staff. When he did not return after the first few days, the rumor factories in Shanghai and Nanking got busy: the Gimo had been assassinated; he had gone mad; he was preparing to resign. One other rumor was actually true: the Generalissimo had indeed received additional U.S. technical help-he had just been fitted with a brand-new set of American false...
...last week the Generalissimo returned from his meditative sojourn at Kuling. Nanking learned only that he had passed the days in long walks or, when the weather was bad, in playing Chinese chess with Madame Chiang in front of the fireplace. But there was no doubt of what the Generalissimo had been meditating on: his China was breaking...
...months had passed since Nationalist forces seized Yenan, stronghold of North China's Communists (TIME, March 31). Yenan's fall promised better things to come. But U.S. leaders hemmed & hawed over aid to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek; inflation and political rivalries gnawed at the morale of his people. Gradually, the initiative passed back to the far-from-whipped Communist armies of Mao Tse-tung...
...protect the Nationalist hold on the Tientsin-Kalgan corridor, the Generalissimo last November dispatched one of his crack generals, Fu Tso-yi. While Fu prepared an offensive, Communist demolition squads struck swiftly and by night. They made 100 small breaks in the railroad. Fu chased them away and repaired the breaks; but he had lost valuable time...
...Democrat. Fighting the Japanese, he suffered several crushing defeats; to save his face, Chiang gave him ringing government titles. In 1946 Feng told the Generalissimo that he wanted to go to the U.S. to study water conservation and act as good-will ambassador for Chiang. "Whatever you wish, Ta Ko [Big Brother]," said Chiang. Ever since then, Feng has been in the U.S., making violent proCommunist, anti-Chiang propaganda. Cried he of Chiang: "Reactionary . . . dictator . . . traitor ... his rule must be overthrown...