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Another member of the family, comely, slender Mme. Mao Tse-tung, was planning to leave Yenan for dental treatment in Chungking. Asked if she would see Mme. Chiang Kaishek, Mme. Mao smiled and said: "I hope so." She had last been in Nationalist China eight years ago, when she was still Shanghai Actress Lan Ping, one of her country's brightest cinema stars. She left the films for politics, made her way to Yenan. There, in 1939, she became Chairman Mao's fourth wife...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was tied down in Chungking, so he asked Madame Chiang to be his good-will envoy extraordinary to Manchuria. It was the first big job she had undertaken on her own in three years. At Changchun, the Manchurian capital, it was 14° below zero and the snow lay deep. Bundled in a beaver coat, fur cap and ankle-high rubber boots, China's beautiful First Lady deplaned from her private C-47, smiled and waved to a waiting crowd...
...January 10 the 38 delegates to the P.C.C., an advisory body representing every shade of the nation's political color chart, had begun their task with cautious hope. Two notable events-a truce in the civil war, a bill of rights proclaimed by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek-augured well for their discussions. They debated with dignity and restraint, then sent their main problems to subcommittees for final recommendation. U.S. newsmen reported that the democratic process was genuinely in operation...
Democratic Rights. The Political Consultation Conference, set up last fall by Generalissimo Chiang and Communist Chairman Mao Tse-tung to work out China's political unity, thus began its task under favorable auspices. Besides the truce, the P.C.C. heard other important news from the Generalissimo. The Government was taking steps to insure democratic civil rights, promote local self-government, curb the secret police, grant equality to "all legal parties," release all political prisoners except "traitors" and those guilty of "injurious acts against the Republic...
Late that evening, General Marshall called on Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. For two hours they conferred. The Generalissimo's decision: the Government was strong enough to yield on the issue of Jehol and Chahar...