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...Chinese people (who called him "Old Leatherface") and to American airmen in his command, the news marked the end of a great era. Closer to Chiang Kai-shek than any U.S. military man, Chennault had, said one Chinese, "endeared himself to China more than any other foreigner since Marco Polo." Said one U.S. pilot: "We would rather fight with Chennault than any other man in the world...
...meant that the Communists are now not only rejecting the current People's Political Council in Chungking as a representative body of opinion, but are going further and establishing a parallel Communist council. It means that, as of today, the Communists no longer consider the promise of Chiang Kai-shek nor his proponent national assembly as an adequate program for unity; and that they are on their own preparing to establish another national assembly. This would be based on the millions of people and vast areas that pay allegiance to their own standards. At the end of this long...
Last week the man who has been fighting the Japanese longer than any other world leader gave his answers to some of the war's persistent questions. In Chungking, at his first press conference since 1941 (see FOREIGN NEWS), Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek gave this estimate of the situation...
...China's ninth year of war, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek spoke to the U.S. Said the Generalissimo, at his first Chungking press conference in almost four years...
...Communists will boycott the P.P.C. because Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has rejected their demands for "coalition government and other democratic reforms." (Chungking-Yenan unity negotiations broke down when Yenan refused to surrender control of its army to the National Government or to place it under the command of a U.S. Chief of Staff.) With an eye to future blame, Yenan added: The Kuomintang "proposes to use the P.P.C. and the constitutional convention as a preparation for civil war." (The Communists and the National Government have been carrying on a civil war almost uninterruptedly since...