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China took another momentous step toward democracy. In Chungking, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek opened the first session of the Preparatory Commission for Inauguration of Constitutional Government. He announced...
This week a powerful voice echoed General Chou. Growled Moscow's Pravda: Chungking's recent governmental reforms were "no more than a reshuffling of the cards." China's war effort lagged because Chiang Kai-shek had failed to solve Chungking's "internal political crisis" and "democratize the state...
...They failed partly because they had no idea that Donald was 69 years old. They were looking for a much younger man. If they had remembered to turn to LIFE'S issue of Oct. 25, 1937, they would have found a striking likeness of him with Madame Chiang Kai-shek...
...gather the little-known facts about China and tell them to the Chinese and to the world. Donald did. In 1928, the Old Marshal, Chang Tso-lin, Warlord of Manchuria, uttered a frantic call for his services. Donald served him and, later, his son, Chang Hsueh-liang, until Chiang Kai-shek called him, soon after Japan invaded China...
...Donald, too, who became the intermediary for Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Government when the Old Marshal's son, Chang, kidnapped the Generalissimo in 1936. As usual, he was just the man for the ticklish...