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...negotiations between Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Communist leader Mao Tse-tung take place in a land obsessed by the vision of peace and victory. Pressure upon both negotiating parties . . . comes . . . from the very depths of Chinese political consciousness. People are sick to death of war, profiteering, exile, bloodshed and malnutrition. They are entranced by a vision of China in its entirety, handed back to them intact, its industries unravaged by wars of liberation, its sovereignty total and absolute...
...China's greatest triumph -the formal surrender of the Japanese at Nanking (see INTERNATIONAL)-indefatigable Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek looked ahead. To his nation of 450,000,000 he proclaimed...
Taking over vacationing Washington Columnist John O'Donnell's envenomed spot in the News, she unreeled 800 words of innuendo directed at Mrs. Truman. When Madame Chiang Kai-shek visited the White House she had been so sorry, Ruth wrote, that Mrs. Truman was away in Missouri. Ah. but actually-Ruth confided to the Daily News's 2,000,000 readers-Mrs. Truman had been in the White House all the time...
Then she cooed: "Now, most Washingtonians are convinced that Mrs. Truman intended no slight in not receiving Madame Chiang. It is the sort of misunderstanding which could undoubtedly have been cleared up overnight-long before the rumor mills began grinding out their bitter chaff-if the distaff side of the White House maintained any sort of 'diplomatic' relations with the press...
...Madame Chiang column appeared, Ruth Montgomery met Mrs. Truman at a cocktail party. She was re-introduced to the First Lady by a friend who said, "Of course you read Ruth's column." "Oh, yes. I certainly did," said Mrs. Truman-and smiled sweetly...