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When Frederick Gruin arrived in Nanking last fall to become TIME'S first resident postwar correspondent there, he had to assume his share of the disorganization that eight years of Japanese occupation had inflicted upon China's capital. His efforts to establish himself, his wife, and their young...
"Only the wealthy, the lucky, or foreign officialdom have a chance to find a place to sleep in Nanking. By a stroke of luck and persistence in following up a Shanghai newspaper ad, we discovered the little house which is our domicile and TIME-LIFE'S Nanking office. I...
"But it had once been a home. By the application of imagination, exhausting effort and money, we got together a native repair crew who did a job of painting and renovation which still is far from U.S. standards. By haunting the Government, we seem likely to get a phone (in...
In this ready-for-a-brawl atmosphere the final voting began, article by article. There were shouts aplenty, but no major amendments. Articles 1 and 27 were approved in their original form, and another controversial clause (moving the capital from Nanking to Peiping) was eliminated after the Gissimo vowed that...
Having waited 35 years for democracy, China this week was moving fast. Delegates to the National Assembly meeting at Nanking prepared to vote on some of the 300 changes proposed in the 1936 constitution draft, hoped to adjourn by Christmas with the task completed.