Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hope & Reality. Chiang and Mao put the maximum emphasis upon their area of agreement-in principle...
...Under Generalissimo Chiang's leadership both the Kuomintang and the Communists will do their utmost to avoid civil war and build a free, prosperous China...
...fifth of mankind in their hands. On the eve of the national anniversary they were seated around a banqueting table in Chungking. Guest of honor was Mao Tse-tung, the Communist leader from Yenan, a man with destiny written in his strong face. Opposite him sat one of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's chief negotiators, shrewd General Chang Chih-chung. For 45 seesawing days the two men, backed by their aides, had pitted plan against plan to heal the breach between Communist China and Nationalist China. Now the time had arrived to give the outcome to China...
Never had Chiang Kai-shek's Republic been closer to his goal of unity. Never, too, had the danger of national disunity been more real. And never, in all the long history of U.S. interest in China, had the U.S. been more deeply committed to China's future...
...Communists insisted on keeping control-through governors and mayors-of vital areas, mostly in North China. Chiang flatly rejected this concept of a dynamic, hostile state-within-a-state...