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...intrigue-the kind of factional squabbling that has been one of the Nationalists' gravest weaknesses. A Whampoa cadet sent by Chiang Kai-shek to study aviation in Moscow in 1927 (before the Nationalists and Communists split), Mao set up his country's first military air academy at Hangchow in 1932, helped Chennault build up the Flying Tigers during the Japanese war, served in the postwar period as chief representative of the Chinese air force abroad. But Mao's pet ambition was thwarted when Chiang made the army's General Chou Chih-jou instead of Mao commander...
...prototype, the Stakhanovite movement, has created a glamorized class of "labor heroes." Among other favors, workers who speed up production get vacations at the best resorts, or trips to Peking. Last week, with a fanfare of propaganda, 70 labor heroes from Shanghai went off to beautiful West Lake at Hangchow, as the Russian speed-up kings were sent off to the sunny Crimea. At West Lake, the Chinese Stakhanovites were lodged in villas that once belonged to wealthy merchants. "These houses," reported one Chinese newspaper, "have stained-glass windows, beds with springs, and silk quilts, tiled bathrooms with flush toilets...
...four Shanghai airports for public executions. In one day they shot 293 people. This did not break the record set by Nanking the day before with 376 executions, but there was reason to believe that Shanghai with its larger population would win the contest in the long run. Hangchow (pop. 500.000) only executed 50, but it reported proudly that more than 110,000 people had "waded through rain-soaked streets" to witness the occasion. In two days, 719 Chinese had been executed, an average of one every four minutes...
...morning early in April a pair of U.S.-built Nationalist Mustang fighters swooped down to strafe Communist shipping in Hangchow Bay south of Shanghai. They were suddenly jumped from above, shot down by Communist planes: It was the first time in China's civil war that the Nationalists had met with aerial opposition. A rescued Nationalist pilot said his attackers flew Russian-built LA9 fighters. Six days later, the Nationalists claimed their pilots had encountered 25 Russian-made planes in the Shanghai area...
...armies of Communist General Chen Yi bore down across the flatlands of the Yangtze delta. In the second week of the South China offensive the Reds' pace had slowed down somewhat, but they triumphantly reported eight Nationalist armies crushed and trapped between the Yangtze and the coast. Hangchow, last coastal railroad gateway to the south, was deserted and lay open to the conquerors. Red armies also bore down on Shanghai...