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Asked about some of the people in the news you would like to meet, you put Secretary Marshall and Joseph Stalin at the head of the list, say you would rather meet Douglas MacArthur than John L. Lewis, Bob Hope than Walter Winchell, Mme. Chiang Kai-shek than either Eleanor Roosevelt or Margaret Truman...
Dedicated by Generalissimo & Mme. Chiang Kai-shek as a Christian church in Nanking: the presidential mansion. The Chiangs, who live elsewhere, had promised themselves (in 1937) that they would convey the mansion as such a gift if the Japanese were defeated...
...with no support whatsoever from his beloved Henry Wallace, he was smothered by Pressman & friends. In the end, the platform repudiated the Marshall Plan. It also called for destruction of atomic stockpiles, favored "Big Four control of the Ruhr," demanded "cessation of financial and military aid to the Chiang Kai-shek dictatorship." In chapter and verse it was a faithful reflection of a lengthy resolution prepared for the Communists' own convention this month...
...Nationalist force of about equal strength moved in from the east and west, under the overall direction of Chiang's chief of staff, General Ku Chu-tung. The Red commander struck first, and brilliantly. He picked off a Nationalist brigade, and decimated an entire Nationalist division, the newly formed 75th. Then the Reds looped a steel ring around four divisions of the crack Nationalist Fifth Army, guardian of Nanking. Crowed the Communist radio: "The Fifth Army is being cut into pockets and annihilated...
...more & more Nationalist divisions were fed into the fight. Nationalist planes strafed and bombed the. encircling Communist lines. When repeated assaults failed, Chen Yi tried a last dodge. Loudspeakers in his trenches cried to the surrounded Fifth Army divisions: "Save yourselves needless sacrifice! Rise up and join the anti-Chiang united front...