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In Nanking, the news brought a Honan delegation clamoring to the office of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. He told them: "Don't worry. Reinforcements are on the way. Kaifeng must be defended." That afternoon, the Reds breached Kaifeng's walls. The despairing Honan delegation camped for seven hours on...
Where was elusive Chen Yi headed? Weary Nationalists ticked off some of his possible alternatives. He could rendezvous with General Liu and then wheel on the pivotal railroad junction of Chengchow. Or he might plunge toward Suchow, bastion of the Nanking-Shanghai defense area. Or he could drive down to...
No Fur Coat. The following day the job went to Wong. Nanking was startled. But, after chewing over the record of tiny, chain-smoking Geologist Wong, Chinese nodded their heads. The new Premier was transcendentally honest-in his first 20 years of public service he had never even owjied a...
* Frank Buchman's "Oxford Group," which of late years has called itself MRA (Moral Rearmament), was apparently winning other pivotal Chinese adherents. In Nanking last week, Kuomintang Party Boss Chen Li-fu, a devoted Confucianist, said that he hoped very much to attend the Buchmanites' annual U.S. convention...
For 36 hours the world lived in strange, unreal excitement, spoke in lavender & top-hat terms of "démarches" and "settlements." It even seemed as though Moscow had toned down its radio attacks on the U.S. "They"-the dread pair of antagonists-were going to get together to talk...