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Said Chief of Staff Chen Cheng: "We expect to achieve defeat of the main Communist strength within three months." This did not mean "the end of all armed Communists-naturally there will be pockets left." But it did mean, Chen thought, that "the enemy will cease to exist as a...
From Nanking, TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin cabled this account of T. V. Soong's final days as Premier:
T.V. beat his way up to Nanking from Shanghai in a howling gale of antipathy and criticism. Huffiest & puffiest was still the wind of Fu Szu-nien. Chubby, nearsighted, greying Fu, respected scholar and independent liberal, had expanded his polemics against T.V. into three newspaper articles.
Without much hope, the Chinese Government was pressing hard in Washington for release of the $500 million Export-Import Bank loan, which has long been earmarked for China. In Nanking T. V. Soong tried to persuade UNRRA's fast-talking Deputy Director General R. G. A. Jackson to drop...
Washington heard that Jackson, sitting that night in the U.S. Embassy in Nanking, wrote a cable outlining Soong's drastic proposals. When Jackson got to the end of the second page he could not find another sheet of paper. Impatient, he flipped the sheet over, wrote the last part...