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...Communists are now considering setting up an independent organization in North China, to be styled United Committee of Democratic China or some name of similar character. If this is done, it means that henceforth there will be two open claimants of Chinese sovereignty: Chiang Kai-shek's Government, recognized by the outside world, and a Communist state, governing 80 million people and controlling an army of 600,000. Settlement of China's internal differences by peaceful means would become highly unlikely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA,FRANCE: Irreconcilable | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

...There Still Time?" Investigator Mansfield thought that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's newly reorganized Government showed promise of accomplishing sorely needed reforms. War Minister Chen Cheng seemed determined to improve China's poorly fed, poorly trained, poorly led army. Foreign Minister and acting head of the Executive Yuan, T. V. Soong appeared a good choice to stop China's spiraling inflation, civilian profiteering. But, asked Mansfield, "has Chiang gone far enough, or does he intend to, and is there still time? China used to be able to trade space for time but now she has very little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Chiang is China | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek made the biggest New Year's resolution of them all, promised his people constitutional government, not within a year after the end of hostilities, but before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 8, 1945 | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

Donald Marr Nelson, U.S. special envoy to China, was back in Washington after a strenuous month's trip around the globe. The ears of the ex-WPBoss still rang with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's encomium: "If it [the Nelson mission] had happened as much as one year ago, I believe the present situation would be far better." To Franklin Roosevelt, Don Nelson brought a heartening report. With the Generalissimo's full cooperation, the Nelson mission had launched at Chungking a Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chungking WPB | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

...package are powers over production, priorities, allocation, exports & imports, transportation. It is a sort of combination WPB-OPA-FEA-ODT-WMC, responsible solely to Chiang Kai-shek as the all-powerful President of the Executive Yuan and chairman of the National Military Council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chungking WPB | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

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