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Prospect from Nanking. The Chinese National Government knew that in order to survive it had to restore China's economic life. In the areas under its control its efforts had been feeble and its failures grievous; but an overriding consideration was the fact that not even the most efficient...
Communist armies gripped Harbin, junction of Manchuria's rail network. Communist guerrillas harried water traffic on the Yangtze and the Grand Canal, roved menacingly near the rail arteries connecting Tientsin, Tsingtao and other ports with inland centers, such as Mukden and Tsinan. Red troops cut off Nanking and Shanghai...
The Communists offered to relax their stranglehold in return for admission to the Government. As Nanking saw it, this would surely turn out to be a higher price than it looked. Since the successful truce negotiations last spring, more & more Nationalist leaders, including some moderates, had reached the conclusion that...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week left the heat and din of Nanking for breezeswept Kuling, the mountain resort which used to be China's prewar summer capital. There he shed his uniform for a comfortable gown and strolled about the clean-swept, maple-shaded streets. Nevertheless, the political...
A Nanking insider sized up the crisis: "The trend of events indicates that the Generalissimo, while unwilling to risk an all-out, knockdown-dragout civil war is determined to push the Communists away from the railroads and out of economically important areas. The big question is whether the Generalissimo can...