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...Japanese prepared to lay down their arms in China, Yenan crackled with defiance. Communist Commander in Chief Chu Teh roughly rejected the nominal authority of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. To Chungking he wired: your order not to take independent action in accepting Japanese surrender (TIME, Aug. 20) "does not conform to the national interest. . . . You have issued the wrong order, very wrong, indeed, and we have to reject it resolutely...
...discuss - through diplomatic channels. Franklin Roosevelt almost certainly would have been on the world telephones, chinning with "Uncle Joe" and talking guardedly with that mild, new quality at No. 10 Downing Street, Clement Attlee. Lacking telephone connections with China, a spate of personal dispatches would have flown between Chiang Kai-shek and Roosevelt...
...pressure on the President was tremendous. His people at home, the men of his armies and fleets thought that peace had all but come. Some of his most trusted advisers argued that the Japanese condition would mean little in practice-certainly not enough to justify a postponement of peace. Chiang Kai-shek presumably let him know that China sided with him against any concession to the Emperor. Britain's Attlee passed the buck. Stalin's views, if any, were known only to Truman...
This was an open challenge to the Central Government. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek met Yenan's defiance with a crackling reassertion of his acknowledged (but nominal) authority over all China, Free and Communist. To General ChuTeh he wired: Communist forces "must remain in their posts and wait for further directions. . . . To maintain the dignity of Government mandates and abide safely by decisions of "the Allies, all our troops are warned hereby never again to take independent action...
Cried an anonymous Yenan "commentator" : Generalissimo Chiang was guilty of an "out-and-out attempt to instigate civil war. . . ." General Chu Teh's troops had "the right to send their representatives directly to participate in accepting a Japanese surrender by the Allies, in the military control of Japan, and in the coming peace conference...