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Show per capita grant to the $9.32 allowed to "ex-enemy Italy." CHINA STILL HAS GROWING PAINS China's trend toward democracy still had its "growing pains" this week as the major parties continued con-tinued the struggle for the upper hand in drafting the nation's new constitution. The Communist party, which at the outset of the constitution proposal pro-posal had sounded an optimistic note, was later reported holding out on new demands and delaying delay-ing the progress of the Political Consultation Conference. The nation's na-tion's National Assembly is scheduled sched-uled to meet May 5' to act on the new constitution. Tientsin " ' had reported that Chinese Communist troops were still holding the Manchurian cities of Yingkow and Panshan, which nationalists claim they occupied after the cease-fire order went into effect January 13, It was reported, re-ported, however, that the situation situa-tion in Manchuria had shown a marked improvement after 5,000 Nationalist troops were shipped from Peiping to Changchun, the Manchurian capital. ' Meanwhile, the first shipment of relief supplies by UNRRA assigned assign-ed to Communist China had arrived. The $675,000,000 UNRRA allocation, said a Chinese official, is inadequate to the needs of the nation. He had compared the $1.25 |