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leadership in the land were either killed, im- -
prisoned, or silenced by fear. Secret assassin#
singled out for cold-blooded murder not Communists
pat defenseless Members of the democratic l#ag$e
had spoken their minds toe freely* In gumming, refu-.
gee professors sought safety beneath the? roof of the
American consulate. In the wake #f Chiang's trip to
Manchuria, seventy-seven newspapers and wriodiowls
were suppressed by the a#s#e9?a of Peking. Two news-
paper# were suppressed in Canton, In. Peking Mtohino-
gun nests wre set up by the govern^nt armies to
sweep the streets in the event of trouble. 3^'
Shanghai, th# pell## registered the intellectuals and
"Thinkers, listing their names and giving them iden-
tification card# of varied eolors. Ail through cen-
tral China* the promises the Kuomintang had made in
the flush of victory ware dishonored. la North China
the inevitable and expected incident happened* §e&*
gaaist guerrillas, who had watched American marines
leagwe with Kuomlntang troop* t# bar them from the
railway lines for so many months, grew trigger-happy.
A field detachment of guerrillas ambushed an American
convoy on the highway between Tientsin and Peking,
and Americans and eommunlsts killed each other.
This is an'incident the writer covers in detail in a later
phase.
The Kuomlntang greeted the incident with sedate
goo# cheer as finally sealing eommunist-American en-
mity? the gOEBaanista immediately unloosed a barrage
of propaganda denouncing America, and declaring —
despite all contrary evidence that they had at-
tacked only because the Asterioana had been accompany-
ing Kuomlntang troops.
By late summer, the elaborate structure of truce
end American neutrality that ^.rshall had sought to
crest# was crumbling rapidly. Marshall co-opted a
wise and dignified American missionary, Br. J. &elgh*-
ton Stuart, to be ambassador as his fellow-envoy. And
within a few weeks the two men issued a joint state-
ment admitting the failure of their diplomacy and de-
claring that it was a seeming impossibility to arrive
at any peaceful solution agreeable to both parties.
The present situation between the Nationalists and the
e and Jacoby, cit., pp. g$$-g9g
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