Word: jens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peiping, heady with triumph, Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung last week pondered this telegram from China's Acting President Li Tsung-jen. No victor in China's millennial history had ever received a more humble plea for mercy or a more complete admission of defeat...
...last week rose to speak before China's Legislative Yuan in Nanking. There was only scattered applause. When Sun announced he would resign the applause was much louder. Most of the lawmakers had already decided that Sun Fo and his cabinet, who had split Acting President Li Tsung-jen's government by setting up shop in Canton, were delaying peace with the Communists...
While Li Tsung-jen consolidated his political camp, there came menacing news from across the Yangtze. The Reds were shifting armies closer to Nanking; along roads north of the river a steady stream of rice-laden wheelbarrows and donkey carts were building up Communist food reserves. Engines were being dismounted from trucks for installation in river craft. To aid their battle of ideas, the Reds were cocking...
...Chang Chun. 5. Li Tsung-jen...
China's Acting President Li Tsung-jen continued his forlorn efforts to make peace with the Communists. In Peiping, Li's unofficial peace delegation found some signs of Communist cooperation-in matters where the Reds stood to gain by cooperation. Two Nationalist freighters were on the way north loaded with flour for workers in the Communist-ruled Kailan mines. They would return with coal desperately needed in Shanghai...