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...China was still composed of one part truth, one part pro-Communist propaganda and one part inevitable misunderstanding of a very different way of life. Americans thought something like this: "Chinese Communists are extremists, no doubt, but they have had more provocation than Communists in other countries. Chiang Kai-shek may be all right (certainly that good-looking wife of his is) but Chiang is surrounded by reactionary politicians...
...made and demands impending gave some idea. Demands were not confined to Europe. Korea (see FOREIGN NEWS) was at the head of the line with a request for $75 to $100 million. The State Department was getting ready to reverse its policy in China, take the Government of Chiang Kai-shek back into its good graces. China was expected to ask for $1 billion. Mexico's President Alemán had won from Harry Truman a promise of help which was now figured to run to $100 million. The cost of implementing the Truman Doctrine in the next...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek knew that literacy was a military weapon for an army that needed leaders. In 1940, near bombed-out Chungking, the National College for Rural Reconstruction was founded, with Yen as president...
...Thus to the world's notice last week came a Chinese of whom the world would doubtless hear more: General Chang Chun (58 but looking younger), Governor of rich Szechwan (Chungking's province), leader of Nanking's moderate Political Science Group, friend of Chiang Kai-shek since they went to military school together in Japan...
There were other auguries of more democracy; the Kuomintang announced dissolution of the party's own secret police-the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics. (Some tough non-statisticians would be looking for new jobs.) This week Chiang Kai-shek agreed to delete a sentence in the new Organic Law which would have made him-as President-responsible only to the Kuomintang...