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...Chiang Kaishek, China's Man of Eight Years, the events of 1945 came as a reward for unwavering courage and patience. Of all the Allies, China had endured the most. But the long-awaited, almost-despaired-of peace found Chiang embroiled in something close to civil war. He might well be the Man of 1946, or of some later year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Bomb & the Man | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

Their professors petitioned Chiang Kaishek and Mao Tse-tung to settle the domestic quarrel. Last month, in defiance of an official ban, the students paraded in the streets. Soldiers fired rifle volleys in the air to disperse them. The students called a strike. Uniformed rowdies threw hand grenades that killed three students and one professor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Scholars Walk Out | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

...Carter Vincent, head of State's Office of Far Eastern Affairs and thus Secretary Byrnes's most influential adviser on China matters. Vincent had been the go-slow opponent of the War and Navy Secretaries in their efforts to frame a stronger policy in support of Chiang Kaishek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Light on Statecraft | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

From London Churchill cabled with typical British understatement: "What about Chiang Kaishek? Is he not having a very thin diet? ... If [the Chinese] collapse our joint dangers would enormously increase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Last Days | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

Addition in Moscow. The Russian attitude toward China was obscure. At Potsdam Joseph Stalin had said: "The U.S.S.R. favors a strong, unified China. It is our belief that this objective can be accomplished only by the Central Government of Chiang Kaishek. This government is not the strongest kind of government but it is the strongest in sight in China." Nonetheless, Russian troops had managed to impede Nationalist landings at Manchurian ports and turn over some areas to the Chinese Reds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICIES & PRINCIPLES: Wanted: a Decision | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

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