Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wife of 1937, Chinese Generalissimo & Mme Chiang Kai-shek went separate ways last week from Hankow, the de facto capital of China. She flew 600 miles to the comparative safety of British Hong Kong in the South. He flew 275 miles to the hottest battle sector in the North, near Suchow in fertile Shantung, "China's Breadbasket." Tighter censorship, both Chinese and Japanese, reduced most war news to rumor. It was, however, credible if conflictingly rumored...
Little explanation was needed. Obviously Dictator Stalin did not mean to let his pilots fight until Generalissimo Chiang gave Communists greater authority in the Chinese Government...
China's once potent Governor Han Fu-Chu of Shantung, who recently yielded his capital Tsinan to the Japanese, last week was exhorted to "Hold Tsining at any cost!" To Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (360 miles away at Hankow), who wired this advice, Governor Han wired back: "I could not hold Tsinan, so I do not believe I am able to hold Tsining...
...Hankow, now the headquarters of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, Chinese felt safe last week because many Soviet war planes flown by expert Soviet pilots had arrived to protect them. The Russian aces, large, square-headed fellows of the surly, close-mouthed type seen in Leftist Spain, kept rigidly to themselves, but Chinese never doubted they would go up and do battle at the first Japanese air attack...
...battle areas where there are wounded to care for, the missionaries remain at the colleges and universities, hospitals and medical missions where for years they and their predecessors Christianized and educated the best class of Chinese, nurturing the indigenous Chinese Christian phenomenon of the New Life Movement of the Chiang Kai-sheks. In the New York Times last week, details in a lengthy airmailed dispatch by F. Tillman Durdin on the fall of Nanking (TIME, Dec. 27) revealed something of the fortitude currently displayed in China by these men of God in the foreign field...