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...omens were propitious. First, the influential Kuomintang newspaper Ta Kung Pao reported that agreement had been reached on two fundamental points: 1) the Kuomintang and Communist Par ties would cooperate on an equal footing in the reconstruction of China under Chiang's leadership; 2) all political and non-political groups would confer on participation in the Central Government...
...week's end Chungking gave substantial confirmation to Ta Kung Pao's report. Differences still outstanding between the Parties will be submitted to a new, fully representative political council to meet soon under the chairmanship of the Generalissimo. For its part, the Central Government has agreed to release political prisoners, grant freedom of speech, curb the activities of the Chinese special police. The remaining differences were too important to be taken lightly. Among them: the size and control of the Communist Army, administration of the Communist areas, the Communist request to postpone the Constitutional Convention slated to meet...
...Shall Consider." Tension mounted, eased, mounted again. Japan's General Okamura accepted Chungking's order, promised to surrender formally this week. Central Government troops moved into Canton, waited on Shanghai's outskirts. The Chinese puppet chief at Nanking, Chen Kung-po, promising to "atone for my sins," transferred allegiance to Chungking, put "1,000,000 soldiers" in the Yangtze valley at Chiang's disposal...
...vice chairman of the joint administration office of the four Government banks it appointed Premier Soong (chairman: Generalissimo Chiang). T. V. replaced his ailing brother-in-law, H. H. ("Daddy") Kung, 64, onetime top man of Chinese finance and administration, now virtually retired from public office...
Suffering from exhaustion, nervousness and a chronic skin disease, she has kept to herself, spending much of her time in a shrubbery-screened garden. With her are her nephew and niece, L. K. Kung and Mrs. Rosamond Chen, children of Dr. H. H. Kung, China's onetime Minister of Finance. She has four servants. Sometimes there are visitors-old American and Chinese friends, classmates from her days at Wellesley College...