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Many of the portraits you will see were lent by the newsmakers they depict - for the originals of TIME covers have gone (among many others) to General Hodges and Madame Soong, General Krueger and Senator Vandenberg, Mrs. Jimmy Doolittle and the mother of General Mark Clark. TIME'S painting of General Patton is framed at his Massachusetts home "Green Meadow" - General Somervell's portrait is in his office at the Pentagon Building - and our painting of General "Tooey" Spaatz hangs on the wall of his wife's home in Washington ("I have never seen a picture...
...Much Longer? No less a personage than China's Premier T. V. Soong, returning to Chungking from Moscow, predicted that the Japs would quit this year or in early 1946. On the other hand, rumors of imminent peace which gushed from various world capitals caused top side Army and Navy figures to repeat their warnings that the war would probably run until...
...Pravda underlined the withdrawal from Iran of U.S. troops (which had been supplying Russia with Lend-Lease) by a blast against the Iranian Government. Farther east, the overheated Russo-Chinese relations promised to cool as, after a fortnight of negotiations in Moscow, China's Premier T. V. Soong flew east to Chungking, Generalissimo Joseph Stalin flew west to the Big Three conference in the ruins of Berlin (see INTERNATIONAL). But at week's end, the Chinese Communists seemed about to declare their independence of Chungking...
While Premier T. V. Soong flew back to Chungking from apparently fruitful talks with Generalissimo Joseph Stalin in Moscow, the Yenan radio broadcast startling news. Last week in Yenan 116 delegates from all the Communist areas of north, south and central China met in plenary session...
...four-motored plane from Chungking came down at Moscow's airport. China's Premier T. V. Soong was the first to alight. He wore a blue suit, but not his horn-rimmed spectacles. Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov greeted him. The foreign colony stood by, including U.S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman and British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr. A guard of honor snapped to attention. A band played the national anthems of China and Russia...