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From dusty Nanking streets, sleek limousines converged on a plain brick residence in the spacious Ministry of National Defense compound. It was Friday afternoon; by 2 o'clock Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's small drawing room was jammed with ranking Kuomintang officials. Tense and silent, they waited for...
When Chiang told Kuomintang officials to support Vice President Li Tsung-jen, one of his hearers asked: "What can Li do? What are his ways & means to improve the present situation?" Everybody in China, including Li, knew the answer. Li had almost nothing with which to bargain with the Red...
A Harsh Answer. For two weeks following his New Year's peace proclamation (TIME, Jan. 10), the Gimo had stubbornly withstood mounting pressure from his subordinates to step aside and hasten negotiations with the Reds. Now, as disaster closed about his government, he had Mao's harsh answer...
At week's end the Communists had set a time limit for a separate surrender of Peiping. With the fall of Tientsin, ECA cut off flour and wheat shipments to Nationalist China under a "watch and see" policy. Red capture of the city freed an estimated 150,000 Communist...
Chiang Kai-shek's troops will fight back, and the seat of government, when threatened, will withdraw south from Nanking to Shanghai, to Canton, even to Kunming if necessary, he is supposed to have said.