Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policy is expected to be unequivocal: open, forthright cooperation with Chiang Kai-shek's National Government, serving notice on the Chinese Communists that the U S. will not be deterred from carrying out its promise to assist the Chungking Government in taking over North China and Manchuria from the Japanese...
...Unless the U.S. was prepared immediately to state a strong policy in support of Chinese unification under Generalissimo Chiang, and to leave in China the forces necessary to execute this policy, it should withdraw from China...
...does not implement a strong policy, Generalissimo Chiang's forces will be driven from Manchuria, and perhaps all North China, by the Communists. China will be divided...
Addition in Moscow. The Russian attitude toward China was obscure. At Potsdam Joseph Stalin had said: "The U.S.S.R. favors a strong, unified China. It is our belief that this objective can be accomplished only by the Central Government of Chiang Kaishek. This government is not the strongest kind of government but it is the strongest in sight in China." Nonetheless, Russian troops had managed to impede Nationalist landings at Manchurian ports and turn over some areas to the Chinese Reds...
...success or failure of Indo-China's independence movement now rested largely on China. The main forces of the rebellious Viet Nam ("Distant South," the ancient name for Annam province) had been pushed back to their stronghold in the colony's north. There, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's troops, sent to disarm the Japanese, were in occupation...