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Times were hard in Nanking, but the Fred Gruins had a fat goose (no turkeys available) and Fred Jr., aged five, was all set to chop down a little evergreen growing inside the bamboo fence of the Gruin's ten-mow (3⅓-acre) "estate." In Shanghai, Bureau Chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 23, 1946 | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

-This week the Chinese Ministry of the Interior gave the right-wing Nanking newspaper National Salvation Daily a week's suspension for hoping Stalin would "die soon so the world would get a bit of peace."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Succession | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

If the constitutional democracy being shaped in Nanking this week by China's National Assembly is to work at all, it will need many able administrators-honest & able men whom the people can trust. China does not have enough trained officials who fit these specifications, but it has more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Honest & Able | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Yu Ta-wei (David Yu). During the Japanese war a compact, precise little Harvard Ph.D. ran Free China's small-arms factories, made them the best-administered of all Government agencies. Dr. Yu's reward was Nanking's toughest job: restoration of railroads wrecked by eight years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Honest & Able | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

At 4 p.m. on Nov. 11, the eve of China's National Assembly, five middle-aged men waited in the reception room of a snug, red brick house in Nanking. Five nonpartisan moderates, they had come-in a political atmosphere taut as a ripe boil-to seek audience with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vital Step | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

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