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The Chinese were grateful. The ammunition would not win the civil war, but it would help. The Chinese Government hoped that Washington was about to see the logic of a larger proposition: that Nanking needed whatever it took to win the civil war and begin the reconstruction of China.
China's situation was the darkest in many months. The Government had lost face because its promises had not been fulfilled. When Nationalist armies captured the old Red headquarters town of Yenan last March, Nanking had predicted that remaining Communist armies would be swept from the field in three...
From three vital way stations, three TIME-correspondents last week sent in reports. Emmet Hughes, TIME'S Rome bureau chief, who has spent four years in Spain, recently returned to Franco territory and found, contrary to wishful predictions, that the Franco regime seemed fatter and more secure than ever...
Paratrooper General. Youngish (44) General Tu, who sometimes wears a brown stocking cap at headquarters to keep his straight, black hair trained back, had his detractors. Manchurian deputies shouted in Nanking that the Communists were making headway because Tu's officers were busy dealing in opium and loafing in...
Suffering from a lame leg last week, Tu could not visit the front as he liked to do. Unhappily, the front was coming to him, anyhow. Nanking was rushing reinforcements to the northern theater by land and air.