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After 20 years as China's leader, was Chiang Kai-shek on the way out? Last week Nationalist China's morale was so low that even some of the Gimo's sincere and patriotic supporters were asking the question...
What could be done to repair China's shattered morale? Last week, in mountain-top Kuling, where he often goes in moments of his most earnest self-searching, the Gimo and his most trusted advisers tried to find answers. Some of the alternative courses which China might take...
...Gimo might stay on as head of state rallying what support he could for a stand in Central and South China against the Communists...
Next day, accompanied by Madame Chiang and with an air escort of fighters, the Gimo flew for a look at the Honan front. Over embattled Kaifeng, it was said, he talked by radio phone to the defenders...
Chiang flew on to Sian, summoned an emergency conference of his top military men. The entire Central China front hung in delicate balance. Any additional divisions the Gimo threw in to tip the scales would fatally weaken the sector from which they were withdrawn. His most dependable combat troops, the tough, hard-fighting veterans of General Fu Tso-yi, were already over-extended and outnumbered in the vital Peiping corridor...