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Open Letter. Nanking, Paris, London, Berlin, Moscow, New York newspapers blazoned the story that Russia had accepted a U.S. bid to talk about their differences. For hours, while almost no one analyzed the Smith-Molotov texts, the whole world felt a springlike breath of hope. The magic word "peace" appeared...
Li was an outsider, not one of the Nanking inner circle like Sun Fo. Though he was famed as the Chinese commander who had smashed two Japanese divisions at the battle of Taierhchuang in 1938, he had had no active field command since V-J day. Obviously, he was not...
War bulletins pouring into Nanking continued bad. The Communists were driving a corridor through fertile Shantung; Communist divisions, held up by this month's thaw and mud, were massing around Mukden for a spring offensive.
These disasters shaped the mood of the delegates convened at Nanking for China's first National Assembly. Out of the clamor of more than 2,500 peoples' delegates -talking, questioning, accusing, cursing-arose the authentic voice of China. Its tone was laden with tragic discontent, and with something...
A Fur Coat for Cumshaw. But the ultimate protest did not take place in the Assembly Hall. It worked itself out in a cheap hotel in a grubby lane of Nanking's crowded red-light district (nicknamed "Confucius' Temple").