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...Communist leader's first wife was a village bride selected for him when he was 14, and subsequently disregarded. No. 2 was a professor's daughter, devoted Yang Kai-hui, mother of Mao's Moscow-schooled sons; she was killed in the civil war of the '20s. No. 3 was a militant propagandist, frail Ho Tzu-ch'un; she is reported to have borne Mao five sons, all left for safety with peasant women during the civil war, and all since dis appeared. In 1938 Mao and Ho separated, later were divorced ; for consolation...
...coalition, the Kuomintang would still be a strong majority party, but it would no longer be solely responsible for the nation's political tutelage. On this historic point, the words of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek were deeply significant. In a congratulatory address that closed the P.C.C.'s work, China's leader proclaimed...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was tied down in Chungking, so he asked Madame Chiang to be his good-will envoy extraordinary to Manchuria. It was the first big job she had undertaken on her own in three years. At Changchun, the Manchurian capital, it was 14° below zero and the snow lay deep. Bundled in a beaver coat, fur cap and ankle-high rubber boots, China's beautiful First Lady deplaned from her private C-47, smiled and waved to a waiting crowd...
...January 10 the 38 delegates to the P.C.C., an advisory body representing every shade of the nation's political color chart, had begun their task with cautious hope. Two notable events-a truce in the civil war, a bill of rights proclaimed by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek-augured well for their discussions. They debated with dignity and restraint, then sent their main problems to subcommittees for final recommendation. U.S. newsmen reported that the democratic process was genuinely in operation...
Then Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek made a speech to the nation. Once again he demanded the nationalization of China's Communist armies, the ending of a state-within-a-state. "The people's most persistent aspirations," he said, "are stability and reconstruction. ... If there is more than one supreme authority who can issue military and administrative orders, if the means of communication and transportation are destroyed here and there . . . the people can never have their aspirations realized...