Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week left the heat and din of Nanking for breezeswept Kuling, the mountain resort which used to be China's prewar summer capital. There he shed his uniform for a comfortable gown and strolled about the clean-swept, maple-shaded streets. Nevertheless, the political temperature continued to rise and the Government's discomfiture increased.
A Nanking insider sized up the crisis: "The trend of events indicates that the Generalissimo, while unwilling to risk an all-out, knockdown-dragout civil war is determined to push the Communists away from the railroads and out of economically...
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