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...address of our office-residence is #3 Shih Tze-kai (Crossroad). It is a six-room greybrick bungalow, with an attic, garage and shanty-like servants' quarters. It has bamboo-fenced grounds, which were given over to neighborhood pigs, fowl and scabby babies. It had been occupied by the Japanese for eight years, and neglected for eight years. Consequently, it was in an absolutely revolting state of disrepair: no furniture, tat ami (raised floors) everywhere, brokendown plumbing and lighting, filth, filth and more filth...
...Number 3 Shih Tze-kai will be an office as well as a home in one of the world's important capitals. TIME-LIFE could never cover Chinese politics adequately from Shanghai. Nor is commuting between Shanghai and Nanking practical. Regular riding in casual Chinese planes sooner or later would be fatal; the best train takes seven to eight hours one way; the auto highway is still impassable because of broken bridges and potholes...
...looked as if France's Georges Bidault, as leader of Europe's only strong new political movement, Christian socialism, might be 1946's man; but as the year ended and the Fourth French Republic began, Bidault was out of office (and apartment hunting). In China Chiang Kai-shek gained ground on two fronts: he beat the Communists in the field and sponsored a constitutional assembly which worked through democratic process to China's first constitution (see FOREIGN NEWS). Chiang, however, still had far to go toward unifying and rehabilitating his country...
...however, the Russian flood was contained. On the dam that held it many men had labored- Bevin and Bidault, General Lucius Clay in Germany, Mark Clark in Austria, The Netherlands' Eelco van Kleffens and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak in U.N., Mac-Arthur in Japan, Chiang Kai-shek in China, and, eminently, Senator Arthur Vandenberg in the U.S. But the dam's chief builder was James F. Byrnes of Spartanburg, S.C., who became the firm and patient voice of the U.S. in the councils of the world...
...piece in the U.S. policy structure, John Carter Vincent, director of the State Department's Far Eastern Division, last fortnight rushed in to fill the vacuum left by Byrnes's absence; Vincent drafted for Truman a statement which was, to say the least, impatient toward Chiang Kai-shek and infirm in opposing the Reds...