Word: chess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chess by the Fire. Even more ominous than the military disintegration, if possible, was the weakening of civilian support. Manchurian landlords who had fled from the Communists were going back now, to accept whatever land the Reds would let them have. Parties of students were slipping away to join the Reds. In Yunnan Province, peasants were rebelling against further conscription...
...last week the Generalissimo returned from his meditative sojourn at Kuling. Nanking learned only that he had passed the days in long walks or, when the weather was bad, in playing Chinese chess with Madame Chiang in front of the fireplace. But there was no doubt of what the Generalissimo had been meditating on: his China was breaking...
Might & Rights. But those who have played chess with him know that Abdullah, who plays well, likes swift moves, gets bored if the game lasts too long. What moves, wondered rival Arab leaders, was the wily brain planning to make in neighboring Palestine? Traditionally the bad boy of Arab politicians, Abdullah has never made any secret of his ambition to expand his holdings, at the expense of Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, or of all four of those states...
...Middle East chess game, he has a powerful piece-a well-trained, wellarmed, British-led army, the 10,000-strong Arab Legion, most efficient Arab fighting force in the Middle East. In a bold move he might use the Legion (already two-thirds of it is in Palestine to help the British keep order) to seize chunks, or all, of Palestine for himself...
...orders contrary to Abdullah's, the man who serves two kings replied: "I am a British subject. I would have no alternative but to resign my command." Last week the British hoped that Glubb would not be forced on to the horns of that dilemma. If the little chess player's ambitions run away with him, say the British, they will immediately withdraw their subsidy, officers, Glubb and all, and cut off supplies...