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Then Britain's Harvey Moore, observer for the International Association of Jurists, went up to the banked microphones. The delegates cheered the news of Nanking's fall (see FOREIGN NEWS). Asked Moore: Did the partisans of peace want the Chinese civil war to stop? No, was the bellowed...
If the government said yes, Communist troops would enter China's southland both east and west of Nanking, would then wheel coastward to cut off Shanghai. If the government said no, Communist troops were primed to cross the river by assault. In the vital lower Yangtze, they were 400...
The plane from Peiping winged down to the airfield inside Nanking's ancient wall. Nationalist Envoy Huang Shao-hsiung, back from peace talks with the Reds, stepped through the hatch into a clamoring crowd of reporters who besieged him with questions. The man from Peiping parried feebly: "Splendid weather...
Just before his retirement to his native village of Fenghua last January, President Chiang Kai-shek thoughtfully moved some $300 million of Nationalist gold, silver and foreign exchange from Nanking and Shanghai to safer vaults in Formosa and South China. There it was put under tight control of generals and...
There has been the same fatalistic reaction to the news that a Communist assault-or perhaps merely a peaceful occupation-might be imminent. Said a cobbler in the Fu Tze-miao, Nanking's chief bazaar: "The war is lost. Let them come. Shuikuan [Who cares]?"