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Curious to know what our correspondents in other countries must carry to cover the postwar news, we asked them to empty their pockets and tell us what they found. Here is a typical summary, from Fred Gruin, TIME correspondent in Nanking.
Pocket contents: one reporter's notebook; one address book; one batch name cards, minus which it is almost impossible to do business in China (front of card bears my name in English; reverse side has the Chinese translation, Go Ho Ping, meaning Hope For Peace, which causes many high...
His armies had given him the city of Antung. His people paraded, ate "longevity noodles," displayed a million photographs and set off a billion firecrackers. In recently starving Hunan Province, his statue would soon surmount a mountain peak. Over Nanking, formations of Chinese airforce planes spelled out "six ten longevity...
Pattern of Joy. But the drowsy peace of Lake Tai Hu was not duplicated everywhere in China-nor was the engine the only Western device to be scrapped. In Nanking, qualified observers agreed that the last forlorn hope for successful U.S. mediation between Nationalist and Communist forces had all but...
If the Generalissimo was happy, it was not because peace was in sight, but rather because the recent success of his armies has convinced many doubters that China can be unified by military means-as Chiang the Soldier had argued. In Nanking, both generals and politicians-who have not always...