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...antagonists of the U.S. had a clear idea of where the U.S. stood. Today the world sees the U.S. as a leading champion among the great powers of a strong United Nations and as an active participant in the discussion of every international issue, from Stettin around to Harbin...
Chiang Kai-shek won his greatest' victory in years over the Communists last week: General Fu Tso-yi's army marched into scorched and abandoned Kalgan, the Reds' Great Wall "show place." Because Kalgan's fall convinced many that Chiang could take Harbin or any other large Chinese city (as long as he had U.S. help), the victory held a happy political significance for Chinese Nationalists who believe with Chiang that the Communists can be beaten into agreement...
Hwaiyin (southeast of Kaifeng) also fell to Government forces, while Harbin was menaced by General Tu Li-ming's advancing troops, who were spoiling for a fight in Manchuria "before the snow flies." Along the border of Russian-occupied Korea, Government soldiers were preparing a drive on Antung, "funnel for delivery of foreign [i.e., Russian] supplies to the Communists...
Communist armies gripped Harbin, junction of Manchuria's rail network. Communist guerrillas harried water traffic on the Yangtze and the Grand Canal, roved menacingly near the rail arteries connecting Tientsin, Tsingtao and other ports with inland centers, such as Mukden and Tsinan. Red troops cut off Nanking and Shanghai from western China...
Chiang Kai-shek was on the defensive. Harbin and Tsitsihar had fallen last week to the Reds. At a Chungking tea party the Generalissimo decided to postpone calling the National Assembly because the Communists refused to participate. Some of Chiang's advisers feared that time was now on the side of the Communists; because hungry, strife-torn China might blame the Government for failure to restore the peace the Reds had broken...