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...Problem. It would not be an easy fight. One of the main problems confronting T.V. was a settlement of China's civil war. Last week a truce between the Chungking Government and Communist Yenan seemed in the making. Communist envoy Chou En-lai had delivered Yenan's latest demand for a coalition government. Chiang Kai-shek still shook his head; he was "still opposed, as the head of any independent nation must be, to an armed state within a state. But he had made a counteroffer. Its details not disclosed, Chungking said authoritatively that the Generalissimo...
Calling for a truce among America's educators, President Conant outlined a program strongly recommending the education of all the nation's youth. Steps should be taken to discover students who, for the good of the country as a whole, deserve to be given college training. However, the schools must also re-investigate the problems of educating those young people who would not benefit from a college education. Only by such a fuller understanding of the role of the future citizens can the real ends of education be reached...
...Chinese Communists . . . have good armies that are now fighting guerrilla warfare against the Japanese in North China. . . . The Generalissimo regards these armies as the chief threat to his supremacy . . . has made no sincere attempt to arrange at least a truce with them for the duration of the war. ... No diplomatic genius could have overcome the Generalissimo's basic unwillingness to risk his armies in battle with the Japanese...
...French Red Cross workers cycled along the causeway that leads across the marshes outside Dunkirk. They passed safely through the German lines, pedaled through no man's land to the British lines. There they delivered a message from the German garrison commander. He wanted a truce to permit evacuation of Dunkirk's 20,000 civilians before the final battle, in which the city was certain to be destroyed...
Back to Dunkirk went the Red Cross messengers, followed by a British officer who haggled over truce terms with an officer deputed by the German commander...