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Economically, China is decadent, living by an incestuous economy in which public officials sanction, if they are not leaders in, all depraving business practices of the day. It is an economy of printing-press inflation and Government-supported black markets. The inflation's effect on national morale was seen...
The Only Hope. China's present Government is achieving neither peace nor economic welfare. How can they be achieved? Only, apparently, by recognition of the truth and by application of unprecedented American economic and diplomatic pressure to effect a housecleaning at Nanking.
Chinese Nationalists and Communists, their armies deployed for battle, were still killing each other last week; but negotiations between their leaders continued in a much improved atmosphere. Opposing propaganda chiefs met in Nanking in an effort to place bounds (sternly requested by U.S. Mediator George Marshall) on the things they...
The bitter public gossip about banquets for a few while millions starved (TIME, May 6) echoed in China's Executive Yuan. Under Premier T. V. Soong, the Nanking Government ordered all civil servants to observe austerity. Items: no lavish gifts or ceremonies, no dancing. Those who enter taxi dancehalls...
For six long years of war, news from embattled China funneled through the tumbledown, mud-&-lath buildings of the Chungking Press Hostel. Last week, the last of the foreign-press corps followed the Central Government to Nanking. The bamboo-fenced compound looked as dreary and forsaken as an empty schoolyard...