CHINA: Truce

The truce between the National Government and the Communists was not the millennium; the road ahead was rocky with grave issues. But not since V-J day had China's prospects seemed so good.

The trucemakers—Government General Chang Chun, Communist General Chou Enlai, U.S. General of the Army George Catlett Marshall—had agreed on three points: 1) all hostilities would cease immediately; 2) all troop movements would also cease, except in Manchuria and south of the Yangtze, where Government sovereignty is unchallenged; 3) all lines of communications would be cleared. A commission composed of Government,...

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