MOVE FOR TRUCE
CHINESE FACTIONS CHIANG’S MESSAGE (Rec. 11.45 p.m.) CHUNGKING, Jan. 1. Tjie Central Government countered the Communists’ truce offer by proposing that it and the Communists appoint representatives to confer with General Marshall on the procedure for halting hostilities and restoring railway .communications. General Chiang Kai-shek has convened a meeting of the Political Consultative Council. In a New Year message to the Chin ese people General Chiang Kai-shek announced that the Government was ready to invite the leaders of other political parties to participate in the Government, either in policy-making council or the executive branch. They would be welcomed into the Government before the National Assembly meets on May 5 to consider a new constitution for China. The only condition was that other political parties must not maintain autonomous armies to serve as instruments for the forcible seizure of power.
General Chiang said the Government would use every possible peaceful means to solve internal conflicts.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26040, 2 January 1946, Page 5
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