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Next day he signed a treaty which might be no less historic than the Japanese surrender itself. When the terms were published this week, it was clear that China's great statesman, T. V. Soong, had achieved China's greatest chance in modern times for peace, progress, and perhaps even prosperity...
China and Russia will be co-owners of the two Manchurian railroads-the Chinese Eastern and the South Manchurian, both built by Russia. (Stalin remarked to Soong: "We haven't had much use of them." Soong's reply: "That wasn't our fault; we didn't guarantee you against the Japs.") Russian soldiers may not use the railroads except to fight Japan. Railway guards will be exclusively Chinese...
What China Gets. In his bargaining with Stalin, China's Soong of course had few real military chips to put on the table. But on major issues he did have U.S. support. When Soong talked tough, as he often did in the seven all-night conferences, Russia knew that Soong was not bluffing. Stalin, who likes straight talk, liked Soong...
...powerful National Defense Council and the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee, the Generalissimo delivered an epochal address on foreign policy. It was the logical sequence to the treaty of friendship and alliance negotiated in Moscow by his dynamic brother-in-law and trouble-shooter-in-chief, Premier T. V. Soong (see INTERNATIONAL...
...Washington, where Premier Soong conferred with President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes, there was widespread feeling that China was dissatisfied with the Russian pact. This was by no means certain. For Premier Soong's treaty had won for Chiang Kai-shek a breathing spell in which China's Government could strengthen itself. How successful the breathing spell would prove depended in part on how much support-economic, financial and diplomatic-China would get from...