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...before Kalgan's fall, acquiesced to Marshall's proposal for a ten-day truce that would have javed the Red city. Communist negotiator Chou En-lai turned down the truce and let Kalgan go, though its loss drove a wedge between Communist Yenan and the Reds' Manchurian rampart. Kalgan's capture was the climax and the symbol of six months of campaigning in which the Government army had been more successful than impartial observers had expected. In addition to several Red cities (notably Chengteh ana Changchun) they had cleared many miles of economically vital North China...
Twenty Years of Storm, a review of Japanese militaristic activities from the Manchurian Incident to the surrender...
When Chiang hiked his price for peace by demanding that the Communists withdraw from areas they had long controlled in North China, even his closest advisers felt he had decided on war. When he turned around and extended the two-week Manchurian truce by eight days, they were not so sure. Lo Lung-Chi, spokesman for the liberal Democratic League and one of China's keenest politicians, offered his analysis: "The Generalissimo is the kind of man who will rein in his horse at the edge of the cliff...
Shumei Okawa, onetime Manchurian railway official, carried comic indifference into broad buffoonery. He-interrupted proceedings by opening his crumpled shirt and rubbing his scrawny chest. Although a U.S. lieutenant colonel was assigned to watch him, Okawa slyly outwitted him, twice darted from his chair to smack startled Tojo's gleaming pate. Let out of court for a sanity test, he babbled in high-pitched English: "I don't like the U.S.; America is democrazy...
...between was the veteran Manchurian barrister, Mo Teh-hui, 64, one of the negotiators of the Sino-Soviet pact of last August. Mo spent six days with the Young Marshal at Tung-tse, in Kweichow, "by the side of a beautiful lake." On his return he reported...