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...spite of his conviction that China "could be effectively unified by military victory, the Gissimo had, just before Kalgan's fall, acquiesced to Marshall's proposal for a ten-day truce that would have javed the Red city. Communist negotiator Chou En-lai turned down the truce and let Kalgan go, though its loss drove a wedge between Communist Yenan and the Reds' Manchurian rampart. Kalgan's capture was the climax and the symbol of six months of campaigning in which the Government army had been more successful than impartial observers had expected. In addition...
...purpose of effecting peaceful unification that the National Government called the Political Consultative Council last January, composed of representatives of all political parties and groups, during which a series of agreements was reached for bringing about a truce, for broadening the base of the Chinese Government and for the integration of the armed forces, including the Communist army, into one national army. These agreements, the conclusion of which
...sooner had a truce [between the Government and the Communists] been declared in January than the Communist army began to infiltrate into Manchuria for the purpose of occupying important cities and towns which were evacuated by the Russians, and which, according to the Sino-Soviet treaty of August 1945, should be reoccupied only by the Chinese Government troops...
...Minister, sent a sharp personal note of protest to Truman, went to his country home, Chequers, to cool off for the weekend. Britons professed to fear that Truman's statement would incite Palestine Jews to new disorders and uncompromising demands. The Jewish underground army had already ended the "truce" of nonviolence. Arab leaders angrily attacked the Truman plan, said it could only be forced through if backed by half a million U.S. troops...
...month, is China's equivalent of Independence Day. Last week Nanking buzzed with rumors that Chiang Kai-shek was about to give Chinese a double reason for celebrating the Double Tenth. Had military successes against the Communists around Kalgan created a new political situation in which compromise and truce were possible? Some of the few who might know were suddenly more hopeful than they had been for weeks...