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Some long-range decisions had to be made, too. To hold on to North China, would the government soon have to abandon Manchuria entirely? In Nanking last week a government spokesman described the dilemma. Said he: "Two factors are involved-the government military position below the Great Wall and U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: If Both Are Weak... | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

General Fu had proved able to do one other thing rather better than most Chinese commanders: he had organized the people of the northwest countryside in active support of the Nationalist cause. Months before Nanking called for it, Fu had mobilized district militia, mustered them out every morning at 6...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Real Soldier | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

In the old library of Nanking's Defense Ministry last week Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek held an earnest council of war. Captured Communist war plans helped the Gerieralissimo to make his points. He read aloud Communist Chieftain Mao Tse-tung's own outline for the offensive in Central...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Attrition | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

Communist raiders were tearing up railway lines faster than they could be replaced, almost faster than the news could be relayed to the next strong point.* There were some bright spots: the Government had driven the Communists from their main seaside base, in Shantung; had won some local gains in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Attrition | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

Washington would attach. Liberal, scholarly Hu Shih took a parable from Mencius : "Here are a small basket of rice and a bowl of soup, and the case is one in which the getting of them will preserve life and the want of them will be death. [Yet] if they are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Attrition | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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