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He wanted to retire by last July 1. But it was not until last month that Harry Truman regretfully agreed. Doctors had discovered that Byrnes had a heart murmur aggravated by incessant overwork. The President's mind had been made up long ago: if he ever needed a new...
For more than a month George Catlett Marshall had stood by in China, awaiting release from his year-long mission: to mediate a compromise conclusion of China's civil war. This week President Truman recalled him to Washington. The official reason: "to report in person the situation in China...
The U.S. made another move on the Far Eastern chessboard. In a quietly firm note to Moscow and Nanking, it asked for a speedy end to Soviet control of the Chinese port of Dairen and the Chinese Changchun Railway-and a speedy reopening of both to world traffic.
Placards, Stickers, Speeches. The most conspicuous demonstrations of ill will came from China. At Shanghai, Peiping and Nanking, thousands of Chinese students marched with anti-U.S. placards, shouted anti-U.S. slogans, listened to get-out-of-China speeches, pasted U.S. automobiles (including TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin's...
"Number 3 Shih Tze-kai will be an office as well as a home in one of the world's important capitals. TIME-LIFE could never cover Chinese politics adequately from Shanghai. Nor is commuting between Shanghai and Nanking practical. Regular riding in casual Chinese planes sooner or later...