Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carefully selected emissary and through dropped leaflets, that . . . such firing must be stopped. . . . Should firing . . . continue, you are authorized to take appropriate military measures. Your warning and action should include necessary measures to ensure the safety of innocent persons." General Wedemeyer sent copies of his order to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and to General Chou Enlai, chief Communist representative in Chungking...
...have put Chiang's key armies in the ring with U.S. weapons which use U.S. ammunition. The supply of ammunition is not inexhaustible. To make their handsome weapons work, we must continue to supply the U.S. ammunition. Otherwise we take the responsibility for stranding them without ammunition and letting the Communists mow them down, with weapons taken from the Japanese...
...came direct to Peiping. He talked earnestly with top U.S. officers in China, reportedly advised Washington to withdraw U.S. marines gradually (in about three months). But some Americans in China would risk a stronger U.S. policy and go all-out to insure China's peace by supporting Chiang's Government, imperfect...
When Generalissimo Chiang's troops arrived off Yingkow they found a Chinese Communist garrison. U.S. Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey, in charge of the transports, and General Tu promptly conferred with the Russians to arrange the transfer or neutralization of the Communists...
...effect, the "small war" was a Clausewitzian extension of the political talks begun in August by Communist Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Generalissimo Chiang's negotiators, and recessed last month. The suspended but by no means abandoned negotiations and the military maneuverings were inextricably intermixed. The more either side could gain in the field, the less would be left to negotiation. The more they finally settled by negotiation, the less they would have to fight about...