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...created for the whole of China." Moscow gave no details, but asserted that the new government would have wider political representation, that "an early election will be held throughout China." China's armed forces, added Moscow, would be demobilized. The broadcast, attributing much credit to the recent Sino-Russian treaty (TIME, Aug. 27), ended with the categorical statement: ". . . Unity in China has been established...
...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...