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Australia's hulking, tireless Herbert Vere Evatt led the small and middle nations' fight, as he had at San Francisco. When the Italian treaty came before the Council of Five (for the U.S., Byrnes; for Britain, Bevin; for Russia, Molotov; for France, Bidault; for China, Wang Shih-chieh), Evatt insisted that all the nations that had fought Italy have a say. Russia surprisingly agreed that invitations to speak before the Council be granted to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India. Russia's friends, Yugoslavia and Poland and the Soviet Republics of the Ukraine and White...
Meanwhile, the Generalissimo carried on the business of his Government. He approved arrangements for the formal surrender of Japanese forces in China, to take place this week at Nanking. He appointed an old Kuomintang crony, General Hsiung Shih-hui, to take over Manchuria from the Red Army. He exchanged felicitations with Generalissimo Joseph Stalin over the ratification of the new Sino-Russian treaty...
...Chinese Embassy, another batch of luggage had just been moved in. A U.S. Army plane had brought Chungking's Prime Minister T. V. Soong and his new Foreign Minister Wang Shih-chieh to Moscow for a second series of talks with Molotov and Stalin. Better than anyone else, the Chinese visitors and their Russian hosts understood the full importance and impact of the Soviet declaration...
...Foreign Minister (a post in which Premier T. V. Soong had hitherto doubled) the Government (or Chiang) appointed Wang Shih-chieh, 54, lawyer, educator, scholar and veteran administrator. A European-educated liberal (Universities of London and Paris), Dr. Wang has long advised Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on foreign affairs. Last year he served as the Central Government's chief representative in its bootless negotiations with the Communists. As Information Minister since last November, he considerably liberalized the censorship...
...Agriculture and Forestry Minister it appointed Ku Cheng-kang, fortyish, hitherto Minister of Social Affairs. Minister Ku replaced General Sheng Shih-tsai, the sad-eyed epicure (he likes sea slugs, champagne, Russian chocolates) who last year lost the Government of Sinkiang for openly opposing Russian influence. At the recent meeting of the People's Political Council, General Sheng was violently denounced as a grafter and as one who took "lives lightly as grass...