Word: capi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year, after capturing the Red capi tal of Yenan, Hu must have felt that his job was done. He got married. But last March Hu had fresh cause to thump and howl : wily Communist General Peng Teh-huai had sprung an ambush at Ichuan, killed and captured 20,000 of Hu's best troops (TIME, March 22). Then Peng cut below Yenan, Stonewall Jackson fashion, and, in a forced march of 100 miles, launched his 60,000 troops into the broad South Shensi valleys. He was driving to ward the lush granary of Szechuan Prov ince - never...
...suppressed amusement the white-suited delegates of 20 American Republics last week solemnly gave to blue-jacketed U. S. Delegate Cordell Hull the honor of being the first to sign the Act they had adopted at Havana. Mr. Hull scrawled his name and hustled out of the chalk-white Capi-tolio, while his confreres leisurely went about the business of winding up the Americas' second conference of foreign ministers. The honor paid to the U. S. Secretary of State, who had drawn last place for precedence at the Conference, was not accorded because the Act of Havana...