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Barring miracles, Chiang Kai-shek was beaten. Most (if not all) of China would soon be added to the eleven countries or parts of countries run by the Communists. Control of all China, together with the areas he already held, would place 40% of the world's population in Stalin's grasp...
Although he was neck-deep in a detailed reporting job for TIME'S forthcoming cover story on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Dec. 6), Gruin made arrangements to evacuate his family from Shanghai (they are now on their way back to the U.S.). After a trip to Britain's Hong Kong to file some copy and get some rest, Doyle cabled: "Since my wife and I came to China unencumbered with household goods, we can watch with a relaxed eye the pell-mell evacuation of Shanghai by those with loads of furniture and the ever present tung...
...crowd began gathering near the sentry boxes at Blair House at dusk, stood raptly as rush-hour traffic blatted past on Pennsylvania Avenue. It multiplied as President Harry Truman walked across the street from the White House with three Secret Service men and hurried inside. Madame Chiang Kai-shek was about to come to tea-and to make a last-ditch plea for aid to China...
...collapse of the Chiang Kai-shek government is a result of the conditions which have developed under it in China. China, Fairbanks said, suffers under inflation, corruption in government, a police dictatorship, lack of food and clothing, and a general air of no hope...
Millitary aid from the United States to Chiang Kai-shek's tottering government could only temporarily halt the Communist armies and would fail to solve the Chinese problem, John K. Fairbank, associate professor of History, said last night...