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The Nationalist Government made eleventh-hour efforts for peace. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek proposed a five-man supercommittee (headed by U.S. Ambassador J. Leighton Stuart) to work out a plan for a coalition government with the Communists. The Communists agreed to participate on the committee if they were left undisturbed...
At week's end Communist General Chou En-lai demanded that the U.S. end all aid to Nationalist China or openly support Chiang Kai-shek in "the total all-out civil war." He attacked particularly the sale to the Nanking Government of $800 million of surplus U.S. civilian goods...
"America's predicament . . ." said foreign diplomats in Nanking over their tea last week, and smiled. Watching the ups & downs of Nationalist-Communist negotiations, they were gravely amused by a situation in which the U.S. "won't come in fully and can't get out."
Most Americans, unfamiliar with Chinese geography, found China's war completely baffling. Its ultimate strategy hinged on control of China's arterial railroads. Like a huge capital A, these trunk lines run from Peiping (at the northern apex of the A) southward to Hankow and Nanking. The bar...
If coalition was merely a dream of men of good will, the only alternative was to try to pry the Reds off China's lifelines. Nanking had few illusions about that job. U.S. military observers had repeatedly told Chiang Kai-shek and his generals that the odds were heavily...