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Instead it was Chiang who fell on Jan. 21, 1949. Promptly Chiang's successor, Acting President Li Tsung-jen, blatantly betrayed the bankruptcy of Nationalist China by trying to pull one of the most freakish double-steal plays in modern diplomacy. He proposed to the Soviet Union a pact promising elimination of U.S. influence in China-and simultaneously asked the U.S. for a statement of support to assist him in negotiation with Moscow. The State Department's one word for this was "incredible...
...Communists; and General Marshall's increasing infatuation with the dream of building a middle-of-the-road "liberal" party from scattered political factions in a nation at fatal war with itself. From those factions that inspired such hope, only one leader later rose to power: General Li Tsung-jen, who last year proposed to the U.S.S.R. that American influence be eliminated...
...first visit to Canton since 1936. A waiting group of Kuomintang officials heard again his familiar "Hao, hao" (good, good). Chiang's bull-necked son, Chiang Ching-kuo, hustled his father into a waiting 1948 DeSoto, and the pair sped off to visit Acting President Li Tsung-jen and Premier Yen Hsi-shan. Li and Yen, who had not been informed in time that the Gimo was on his way, had rushed to the airport too late to greet...
...default. Last week, for the third time in six weeks, Premier Ho Ying-chin sent in his resignation. This time President Li Tsung-jen accepted it. Li submitted to a Legislative Yuan meeting at Canton the nomination of Elder Statesman Chu Cheng (age 73). Opposition included a woman legislator in slacks and a Hawaiian blouse, who yelled into a microphone: "He's too old for the job." Shocked oldsters came to Chu Cheng's defense. Said one: "Chu Cheng can still climb the hundreds of stone steps leading up to Chungking." The argument availed nothing. When Marshal...
...dawn, Acting President Li Tsung-jen, together with Premier Ho Ying-chin and Nanking's garrison commander, sped to the city airport. Soldiers put them aboard waiting planes, hastily jumped in after them and slammed the doors. Behind them, Nanking lay waiting for the conquerors...