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...looked as if France's Georges Bidault, as leader of Europe's only strong new political movement, Christian socialism, might be 1946's man; but as the year ended and the Fourth French Republic began, Bidault was out of office (and apartment hunting). In China Chiang Kai-shek gained ground on two fronts: he beat the Communists in the field and sponsored a constitutional assembly which worked through democratic process to China's first constitution (see FOREIGN NEWS). Chiang, however, still had far to go toward unifying and rehabilitating his country...
...however, the Russian flood was contained. On the dam that held it many men had labored- Bevin and Bidault, General Lucius Clay in Germany, Mark Clark in Austria, The Netherlands' Eelco van Kleffens and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak in U.N., Mac-Arthur in Japan, Chiang Kai-shek in China, and, eminently, Senator Arthur Vandenberg in the U.S. But the dam's chief builder was James F. Byrnes of Spartanburg, S.C., who became the firm and patient voice of the U.S. in the councils of the world...
...piece in the U.S. policy structure, John Carter Vincent, director of the State Department's Far Eastern Division, last fortnight rushed in to fill the vacuum left by Byrnes's absence; Vincent drafted for Truman a statement which was, to say the least, impatient toward Chiang Kai-shek and infirm in opposing the Reds...
...session, Christmas Day, brought a simple, stirring final ceremony. Two men, representing the Assembly and the Government, came on the stage under Sun Yat-sen's huge portrait. One was old Wu Chih-hui, dean of the delegates, in satin jacket, skirt and slippers. The other was Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, in white gloves and military khaki. An Army band played the national anthem. The crowded Assembly bowed three times before Sun's likeness; Wu mumbled Sun's will. Then from the chairman's aged hand the Gimo received the Constitution, bound in red and gold...
Final Victory. On Saturday afternoon, the delegates gathered in the Assembly hall-unheated save by smoldering tempers. Chiang spoke briefly, in behalf of unity, assured delegates Article 5 offered full protection for minorities. But an irate Manchurian delegate was not mollified; he stomped to the speaker's stand, insultingly yelled: "Wash your ears and listen to me!" While the Gissimo stared nervously at the ceiling and catcalls drowned the Manchurian's words, Chief of Staff...