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...Government the hour of decision in China rapidly approached. The issue: should the U.S. openly and forcefully support the Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in its fight against the Chinese Communists? If not, how else could the traditional U.S. policy of a free, united and democratic China be maintained...
...success or failure of Indo-China's independence movement now rested largely on China. The main forces of the rebellious Viet Nam ("Distant South," the ancient name for Annam province) had been pushed back to their stronghold in the colony's north. There, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's troops, sent to disarm the Japanese, were in occupation...
...carefully selected emissary and through dropped leaflets, that . . . such firing must be stopped. . . . Should firing . . . continue, you are authorized to take appropriate military measures. Your warning and action should include necessary measures to ensure the safety of innocent persons." General Wedemeyer sent copies of his order to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and to General Chou Enlai, chief Communist representative in Chungking...
...Communists were not likely to succeed, but the effort in the field increased their chances of partial success - or, at least, of survival - at the conference table in Chungking. They were bound to make the effort, and Chiang Kai-shek was duty-bound to forestall them where he could, fight them where he must...
...from Peiping flew a bevy of crack Central Government troubleshooters. One of them was affable General Tu Liming, Chungking's military commander for the Northeast. Another was Russian-speaking Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Kai-shek's elder son, who has a Russian wife and used to be at odds with his father, but is now one of the National Government's up-&-coming younger men and the Foreign Affairs Commissioner for the Northeast. A third was liberal Chang Kia-ngau, a Shanghai banker and ex-Minister of Communications, who has become one of the Generalissimo...