Word: chen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There Still Time?" Investigator Mansfield thought that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's newly reorganized Government showed promise of accomplishing sorely needed reforms. War Minister Chen Cheng seemed determined to improve China's poorly fed, poorly trained, poorly led army. Foreign Minister and acting head of the Executive Yuan, T. V. Soong appeared a good choice to stop China's spiraling inflation, civilian profiteering. But, asked Mansfield, "has Chiang gone far enough, or does he intend to, and is there still time? China used to be able to trade space for time but now she has very little...
Chungking believed that the Japanese at Hochih were still overextended; that although they might hold there indefinitely, it would be some time before they could resume the drive into Free China. Chungking's new War Minister, lean, smooth General Chen Cheng, and American officers, with whom he was on better terms than his predecessor, strove to wring every possible advantage from the frosty breathing spell...
...General Chen was making a spectacular start as War Minister. He announced his determination to abolish thousands of the 20,394 sub-organizations of the National Military Council. He laid plans to train 30 to 40 divisions in 1945, to equip each of them with U.S. artillery. Whereas each Chinese army now comprised three understrength divisions, Chen planned armies built of four full-strength, "square" divisions of four regiments each...
...tired China, that reforms could not wait. for victory-that Allied help, until then too little, would be too late, that China, as usual, must rely upon China. Somehow China and Chiang found the strength. Chiang gave his armies a new, energetic Minister of War-young, able General Chen Cheng (TIME, Nov. 27). Just as important, Chiang had reorganized his civil administration. To China's No. 2 job, Acting President of the Executive Yuan, he appointed China's ablest administrator, his brother-in-law, Foreign Minister Tse-veng ("T.V.") Soong. The crisis - military, economic and political...
...Japanese were also ready with a new Nanking puppet: Chen Kung-po, 54, Columbia University alumnus, ex-president of the Nanking Legislative Yuan...