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...Last spring members of the National Cotton Council and other cotton men raised $380,000 for a last-ditch fight. Feed and flour bags had been used for years by farmers' wives for aprons, dresses, etc., but the cotton men decided to go after city folks too. A tougher and much more important job was to sell cotton bags to wholesale bakers; they didn't give a hoot about prints...
Rude Interruption. Disregarding the inevitable, the Nationalist government pushed ahead with plans for a last-ditch stand. All ordnance plants in the Shanghai-Nanking area, much light industry and operational headquarters of civil and military airlines were being moved to Taiwan and Canton. The Communications Ministry was shifting personnel and gear to Kiangsi, Hunan and Kwangtung...
...dusk, stood raptly as rush-hour traffic blatted past on Pennsylvania Avenue. It multiplied as President Harry Truman walked across the street from the White House with three Secret Service men and hurried inside. Madame Chiang Kai-shek was about to come to tea-and to make a last-ditch plea for aid to China...
...Gimo picked up his military phone and got his Suchow commanders on the wire. His orders: leave the city at once, burn what supplies could not be taken along, seek out the Communist armies to the south and engage them. These were new, last-ditch tactics. It was kill or be killed. Nothing less would save Nanking and Nationalist China from imminent fall...
Just before his visit to Suchow battlefield, TIME'S Robert Doyle had a look at North China. There Nationalist General Fu Tso-yi, with Reds north, east and south of him, was pulling back from advance positions, preparing for a last-ditch defense of Peiping and Tientsin. Doyle's report...