Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agree that the mission had been highly successful-or at least coincided with success. China had its treaty with Russia and it was peacefully debating with the once rambunctious Chinese Communists. No one, least of all Pat Hurley, would contend that the U.S. Ambassador had brought all this about. Chiang Kai-shek and Premier T. V. Soong had achieved the treaty with Moscow without outside help, and the treaty had immediately broken the back of Chinese Communist resistance...
...shrewd, gregarious Pat Hurley had helped smooth out many a rough spot before Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung traveled the road to Chungking. Behind his façade of storytelling joviality he had worked mightily and effectively for better U.S. understanding of Chiang's problems, better Chinese understanding of U.S. aims. Before he left Chungking a fortnight ago, he had received the final farewells of the Generalissimo (in whose residence he had lived for a time) and Madame Chiang. On the whole, Pat Hurley could feel well satisfied that he had accomplished his mission...
Five weeks of meetings between Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung had been cloaked in profound official silence. But Chungking buzzed with expectation-and hope...
...omens were propitious. First, the influential Kuomintang newspaper Ta Kung Pao reported that agreement had been reached on two fundamental points: 1) the Kuomintang and Communist Par ties would cooperate on an equal footing in the reconstruction of China under Chiang's leadership; 2) all political and non-political groups would confer on participation in the Central Government...
...July, the Japs issued an imperial edict freeing Dr. Stuart-if he would ask Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to negotiate with the U.S. for Japan. He refused either to leave his two companions or to transmit the terms. Less than a month later all three were free...