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Annalee Jacoby, packing her belongings at the Press Hostel in Chungking to follow a triumphant Chiang Kai-shek into Nanking, must have been reminded of the day four years ago when the Jap bombing of Manila burned her home to the ground and she lost everything but what she was...
Back to Nanking. The big moment came at Chihkiang, a sun-baked Allied air base in Central China. A Japanese plane circled, then glided to a bumpy landing. Chinese officers waited.
Two days later the Japanese Commander in Chief in China, Lieut. General Yasuji Okamura, agreed to surrender all his sea, air and ground forces, from Manchuria's southern border to Formosa and northern Indo-China. Next day, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Central Government troops entered Nanking. They...
There would be duck dinners in Nanking and picnics among the pines above Sun Yat-sen's mausoleum. Shanghai's famed Bund would start a new life. Centers of industry and trade-some of them, like Shanghai's sprawling textile factories, relatively undamaged by war-would soon...
For a United Nation. The Government, too, prepared to go home. Home was 750 miles and eight exile years downriver from Chungking. Home was Nanking, chosen capital and symbol of republican China.