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On to the bare floodlit stage of Nanking's National Assembly hall strode the Gimo, erect and austere in five-starred military khaki. He took his stand under a backdrop portrait of Sun Yat-sen while 2,500 Assembly delegates applauded.Then Chiang Kai-shek reported on the state of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Long Way Back | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

"Not Ordinary Practice." In the old-fashioned auditorium in Nanking's Kuomintang compound, 300 members of the party's executive committee convened. Their purpose: to nominate a presidential and vice presidential candidate for election this month by the National Assembly. It seemed a foregone conclusion that Chiang would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Public Servant | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

Writing in the Harvard Law School Record, Roscoe Pound, the distinguished onetime dean of the Harvard Law School now on loan to the Chinese Ministry of Justice in Nanking, also tried to clear up some misapprehensions about China. Wrote Dean Pound: "There is by no means the general condition of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Who's in Charge Here? | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

In Nanking last week China's first National Assembly convened; its 3,000 members will elect the nation's President and Vice President. The occasion, which marked China's precarious transition from one-party regime to parliamentary government, was not without incident. Ten Kuomintang dissenters who were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Of Tolerance | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

In Nanking, the government mourned. The "valiant action" at Ichuan would be "sung and wept over in history [as] ... a demonstration of the revolutionary spirit of sacrifice of the national troops. . . . Such spirit . . . will insure that Communist bandits will be exterminated."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Tears for the Valiant | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

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