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Asked about some of the people in the news you would like to meet, you put Secretary Marshall and Joseph Stalin at the head of the list, say you would rather meet Douglas MacArthur than John L. Lewis, Bob Hope than Walter Winchell, Mme. Chiang Kai-shek than either Eleanor Roosevelt or Margaret Truman...
Dedicated by Generalissimo & Mme. Chiang Kai-shek as a Christian church in Nanking: the presidential mansion. The Chiangs, who live elsewhere, had promised themselves (in 1937) that they would convey the mansion as such a gift if the Japanese were defeated...
...with no support whatsoever from his beloved Henry Wallace, he was smothered by Pressman & friends. In the end, the platform repudiated the Marshall Plan. It also called for destruction of atomic stockpiles, favored "Big Four control of the Ruhr," demanded "cessation of financial and military aid to the Chiang Kai-shek dictatorship." In chapter and verse it was a faithful reflection of a lengthy resolution prepared for the Communists' own convention this month...
...weeks ago, when wily Communist General Chen Yi seized the Honan capital city of Kaifeng, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek flew to the battlefront to direct the recapture of the city (TIME, July 5). But as Nationalist columns closed in, Chen evacuated Kaifeng and plunged southward through government territory toward the swift Yangtze River...
...howl of dismay was only one in the millions that made up the screaming wake of China's jet-propelled inflation last week. In two days, while Chiang Kai-shek was desperately trying to bolster the morale of his dispirited armies in Central China, the value of China's currency on Shanghai's black market dropped by half. In Shanghai a wet-nurse unable to find food for her family went on strike, demanding 100 lbs. of rice from her employer. Her nursling's harassed father at last scraped together the necessary $16 million...