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...library of Nanking's Defense Ministry last week Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek held an earnest council of war. Captured Communist war plans helped the Gerieralissimo to make his points. He read aloud Communist Chieftain Mao Tse-tung's own outline for the offensive in Central China, quoted from the latest tactical instructions for Communist field commanders. But the intentions and capabilities of China's Red Army were clear enough without captured Communist war plans. Last week that Red Army possessed the military initiative in China, and appeared to be winning its war of attrition and disintegration...
...last week, Stalin sent the world a soporific greeting (with a wakeful edge). Six British Laborites, led by pro-Communist M.P. Konni Zilliacus, visited Stalin at his seaside villa at Sochi (where he recently ended his triumphal inspection of the Soviet Fleet-see cut). To his callers, the Generalissimo said...
Last week brought "Double Ten" (the tenth day of the tenth month) again in China-the 36th anniversary of the founding of Sun Yat-sen's republic. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek flew back to Nanking from a tour of battlefronts, and broadcast to the nation. Proudly he ticked off the year's brighter spots: capture of the Communist capital, Yenan; the mopping up on the coast of Shantung. Then he made a promise about what was happening north of the Great Wall: "We will not lightly yield one single inch...
...today a general of supreme stature who possesses all those qualities. If President Truman were to ask General MacArthur to add to his present duties and powers the title of Personal Representative of the President with the rank of Ambassador, and to fly to China to organize with the Generalissimo a joint plan to prevent subjugation of China by the Soviet Union, the whole Far Eastern horizon would brighten with hope. His military, economic and political proposals might well be those outlined in this report. He could establish rapidly with the Generalissimo the relations of two comrades in a front...
Tihua Picnics. Last week General Chang submitted to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek a five-year plan for Sinkiang's reconstruction. Under it Nanking would send 60 or 70 technicians to develop agriculture and mining in the northwest. A large financial grant would be made...