Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Outer Mongolia, said Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek at a Chungking press conference, a plebiscite was under way. It was being conducted under the terms of the Sino-Russian treaty (TIME, Sept. 3), which gave Outer Mongolia's one million Soviet-oriented, cattle-raising tribesmen the right to vote for fusion with China, or for autonomy...
...Vision. Mao and General Chou had chafed under Chiang's simultaneous airborne seizures and roundtable amenities. Moscow had signed a broad treaty with Chiang's China at a time when China's Communists were hardest pressed. At least for the present, Mao could not count on outside support...
...Chiang had the U.S. emphatically behind him, backing, building, buttressing. Now, if ever, Mao had to agree-or fight. Would he come back to Chungking and try again? Last week Washington unexpectedly announced that dynamic Ambassador Hurley, who had brought Mao and Chiang together once, would soon return to China...
...years, through hope and despair, Chiang had led China's national revolution. For him, and for China, it had not been an easy revolution, nor a polite one. Now again the vision was bright. Chiang's China stood within sight of its destiny: one mind, one goal...
...that destiny, if need be, Chiang Kai-shek would fight again, with every wile and gun at his command...