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...made and demands impending gave some idea. Demands were not confined to Europe. Korea (see FOREIGN NEWS) was at the head of the line with a request for $75 to $100 million. The State Department was getting ready to reverse its policy in China, take the Government of Chiang Kai-shek back into its good graces. China was expected to ask for $1 billion. Mexico's President Alemán had won from Harry Truman a promise of help which was now figured to run to $100 million. The cost of implementing the Truman Doctrine in the next...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek knew that literacy was a military weapon for an army that needed leaders. In 1940, near bombed-out Chungking, the National College for Rural Reconstruction was founded, with Yen as president...
...Thus to the world's notice last week came a Chinese of whom the world would doubtless hear more: General Chang Chun (58 but looking younger), Governor of rich Szechwan (Chungking's province), leader of Nanking's moderate Political Science Group, friend of Chiang Kai-shek since they went to military school together in Japan...
There were other auguries of more democracy; the Kuomintang announced dissolution of the party's own secret police-the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics. (Some tough non-statisticians would be looking for new jobs.) This week Chiang Kai-shek agreed to delete a sentence in the new Organic Law which would have made him-as President-responsible only to the Kuomintang...
...merchant, Fan Kuang-kua, and his apple-cheeked wife have a counter full of cigarets, wooden combs, runty potatoes, homespun towels and dust-cloths. Yes, says Fan, the Communists had posted many signs and slogans along this very street. Yes, they had been anti-American-they had said Chiang Kai-shek was trying to sell China to the U.S. What does Fan believe? "I understand little of this," Fan says. "I am just lao pai hsing...