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...American professor of English at Tsinghua University encountered a group of Communist soldiers while bicycling. "I am an American," he said. "We don't mind," one of the soldiers replied. "We understand not all Americans are against us." The soldier added with a grin: "We also understand Madame Chiang is not having much success...
...Chengchow, a rail junction for east-west and north-south traffic in Honan, two Shanghai cotton brokers reported "all was quiet." Their warehouse of cotton had been untouched by the Communists. Said a Red officer: "When the kettle belonged to Chiang, we tried to break it; now that it is ours, we want to preserve...
...Fate. In segmented North China, General Fu Tso-yi continued to play a strange sort of game with the Reds. A Communist broadcast had condemned Fu (along with Chiang Kaishek, Sun Fo, most of the new cabinet and others) as a war criminal, deserving a "just penalty." The broadcast added, however, that Fu "could lessen his fate somewhat" if he would immediately surrender Peiping and Tientsin...
...Communist China south of the Yangtze could not expect permanent peace with the Communist north. And it could not survive if the U.S. pursued toward it the same frigid policy that had helped ruin Chiang Kaishek. A free south China, however, would give Washington another chance to develop a positive policy before all Asia was lost...
Meanwhile, as Chiang's military situation worsened daily, Washington gave no sign that it would send additional military aid to China. Madame Chiang Kai-shek's mission to Washington had failed. In Nanking, this week, one of Chiang's secretaries mournfully said: "We hope Madame is home by Christmas; it is so cold in Washington...