Word: sino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...communiqués were issued as the two leaders began their talks. But with the signing of the Sino-Russian pact (TIME, Aug. 27) a change came over the Communist propaganda line. The Generalissimo was no longer a "fascist" defeatist but "President Chiang Kai-shek." The Generalissimo's regime was no longer the "reactionary Kuomintang clique" but the "National Government." Said a Communist spokesman: "We recognize Chiang as a national leader of the anti-Japanese war and we are prepared to recognize him as the leader of postwar rehabilitation...
...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...
...very hour-about midnight Aug. 13-when the Japanese warlords were bowing to Hirohito's surrender decision, Joseph Stalin moved toward a new era in east Asian politics. Abruptly leaving a Moscow banquet for General Eisenhower, Stalin hurried to the final conference on a 30-year Sino-Russian pact...
Explicit Backing. The new Sino-Russian treaty in Chiang's pocket, dropped there by Premier Soong's masterly diplomacy in Moscow (and presumably by hardheaded Russian evaluation of Chinese Communist strength vis-a-vis Central Government strength), brought the "political solution" near realization...
...appointment might also do much to halt the deterioration of Sino-Russian relations. No longer could it convincingly be charged that, as Acting. Premier, T. V. Soong was merely a figurehead in the Chungking Government. As Premier, his rank would enable him to negotiate on an equal footing with Prime Minister Winston Churchill or Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov (Soong is also China's Foreign Minister...