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All week, Nationalist Nanking and Red Peiping had bargained and bickered over terms. Peiping's Red radio had spurned a new Nationalist petition for an "equal and honorable peace." "Mad and erroneous," it shouted at Nanking. "There is only one way to peace, and that is complete surrender . . ."
Armed guards had thrown a tight cordon around Peiping's Wagon Lits Hotel, where a six-man Nationalist peace delegation sipped tea and sampled the Communist temper. Not even the hostelry's Italian barber Martelliti was allowed to pass the barricade. Not even the delegation's leader...
Shaken by this sudden hiking of Red terms, after both sides had previously agreed to talk over Mao's surrender formula (TIME, Jan. 24), the Nationalists' Li had conferred with his generals, then sent his imploring telegram to Peiping.
While Peiping rode the crest of victory, Nanking languished in the slough of defeat. From the Nationalist capital TIME Correspondent Dwight Martin cabled:
Chao Tse-chen, 61, dean of the School of Religion at Peiping's Yenching University, is an austere, kindly man who wears his thinning gray hair in a close-cropped stubble, and occasionally smokes a pipe. Known among his students as "T.C.," he is easily the most popular Christian...