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That was that, but the change was not to be announced for some days. In Nanking General Marshall had broken the news to Chiang (see FOREIGN NEWS). But only a very few in Washington had known that Jimmy Byrnes would quit; most assumed that he would go to Moscow in...
From Nanking, TIME Correspondent Fred Gruin reported:
The correspondents were still waiting for an appointment when most of the sub-teenagers of Nanking's foreign colony straggled in. The General had invited them some time ago for afternoon movies and ice cream; he would not break this date even for affairs of state. Between meetings with...
Casual & Informal. By 7.30 a.m. Wednesday, the huge, four-motored transport 49149, with five stars on its tailfin, was warmed up and waiting at Nanking Military Airport. It was the same plane which had brought Marshall to China more than a year ago.
The Senator expressed his hope that the new Nanking charter would weld China together. Said he: "It is my own view that our Far Eastern policy might well now shift its emphasis. While still recommending unity, it might well encourage those who have so heroically set their feet upon this...