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put an end to one-Party rule and agree to the early formation of a coalition government to administer the country pending the inauguration after the war of full constitutional government. At the end of 1945 Chiang Kai-shok, the leader of the Kuomintang and head of the National Government, agreed to call an all-Party Consultative Conference to discuss political and constitutional matters.
4. This Conference, which included Chinose Communist representatives, met on January 10th, 1946, and one of its most important decisions was to agree tha.. ponding the convocation of a National (Constituent) Assembly, the Kuomintang would revise the Organic Law of the National Government in order to expand the oxisting State Council, which would be the supreme organ of government in charge of national affairs. half of the mombers of the State Council would be members of the Kuomintang and the rest would be selected from members of the various parties. The Consultative Conference also agreed upon the convocation of the Constituent Assembly on May 5th, 1946, with a membership, mainly nominated, acceptable to all parties.
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5. At the same time, as a result of mediation by General Marshall, an armistice agreement was signed in Chungking providing for a cessation of hostilities between the Communists (who had maintained their own independent army since the early 1930's) and the National Government forces, leaving the political issues for consideration by the Political Consultative Conference and the military solution for study by a "three-man" committee, composed of one American, one
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