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...days later the Japanese Commander in Chief in China, Lieut. General Yasuji Okamura, agreed to surrender all his sea, air and ground forces, from Manchuria's southern border to Formosa and northern Indo-China. Next day, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Central Government troops entered Nanking. They were back in China's capital just seven years, nine months and five days since they had been forced to leave the city to a brutal fate that shook the world...
...week's end Mao gave in, with Chinese punctilio: "Mr. Chiang Kai-shek ... I appreciate your telegram. My humble self is most willing to come to Chungking. . . . Chou En-lai is leaving as soon as your plane arrives. Your younger brother is preparing to come in the immediate future. . . ." Chungking reported that U.S. Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley would go to Yenan to escort Mao to Chiang...
...good, grey New York Times summed up the situation in a stinging editorial: "The Chinese Communists . . . are in open rebellion against President Chiang Kai-shek and his Government; they repudiate his order . . . which they are pledged to obey. . . . They want domination. They are not a political party; they are a conspiracy to seize the Chinese Government. And they consider the victory of the United Nations, in which they played a microscopic role, as their great opportunity...
...Washington, where Premier Soong conferred with President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes, there was widespread feeling that China was dissatisfied with the Russian pact. This was by no means certain. For Premier Soong's treaty had won for Chiang Kai-shek a breathing spell in which China's Government could strengthen itself. How successful the breathing spell would prove depended in part on how much support-economic, financial and diplomatic-China would get from...
Wearing a simple khaki uniform, no decorations, Chiang Kai-shek sat com posed and erect before the microphone...