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...last he came out on the platform. Curtly canceling the program, Chiang snapped the sternest rebuke he has ever given in public...
...Chiang Kai-shek sat alone in a room adjoining the Kuomintang auditorium in Chungking. In the hall itself waited 500 Party delegates, government leaders, scholars, celebrities. Before them on the platform stood nine fine bronze tings.* They were inscribed with a classical eulogy, of a type which Chinese tradition reserves for the greatest of men. Copied from ancient models, the vessels carried a symbolic message which was capable of affecting history...
...presentation ceremonies had been planned with delicate subtlety. When Chiang arrived, the sponsors of the occasion led him into the adjoining room and offered him 25 minutes of solitude 'to contemplate his soul...
...Chiang Kai-shek was concerned-and his alone was the power-the 450 million Chinese would keep on their road toward democracy. They would suffer no Son of Heaven...
Furthermore the U.S. press, that had long ago submitted to the yoke of voluntary censorship, was getting quite used to it. The conference ended, the conferees moved on-Chiang back to China, Roosevelt and Churchill to an "unknown destination" to meet Joseph Stalin. And in Washington on Tuesday morning, U.S. newsmen met with Presidential Secretary Steve Early to get the official communiqué about the meeting and the conferees' decision to whittle from Japan the empire it had been accumulating by force and guile since...