Word: changes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China into Russia's arms. Said Vice President Dr. Sun Fo, son of the late great Sun Yatsen, in an interview last week: "The results of Wedemeyer's report. . . will tell China whether it would be better for her to side with the U.S. or Russia." Premier Chang Chun strongly implied that China would side with Russia in demanding a hard peace for Japan...
...cheng is commander of the Communists' Shantung-Shensi-Hopeh-Honan military areas. Chinese Communists, who regard him as a master of mobile warfare, have a new nickname for him: Chang-shen Chiang-chun (Always Victorious General...
Many Chinese officials believed that General Wedemeyer had spent too much of his month's inspection trip talking with Government critics. Said Premier Chang Chun last week: "There were many things General Wedemeyer did not know and did not find out." Premier Chang said that he himself had not been granted a really thorough interview with Wedemeyer...
Communist General Chang and a few of his men had stayed behind in Paiyen when the main Communist force retreated into the high mountains of central Shantung. Their job was to harry the Government's communications and hold villagers to the Communist line as they had been held since the Japs left in 1945. Then on a hot, dusty day, Government troops appeared before Paiyen's low mud walls...
Rifles in the Afternoon. There was not much of a battle. In late afternoon the Government general, a lean Szechwanese, ordered his men to close in. A few rifle shots, some mortar fire, and by dusk Paiyen and some 50 prisoners belonged to Government forces. Communist General Chang and most of his force scattered into the mountains...