Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three months ago, the FBI arrested six critics of the State Department's pro-Chiang policy toward China, charged them with conspiracy to violate U.S. espionage laws (TIME, June 18). A fortnight ago, three of them were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury; the other three, including John Stewart Service, for twelve years a Foreign Service officer for the State Department, were cleared. Last week 36-year-old, sharp-faced John Service had his Washington job back. He also had two memorable letters...
...days later the Japanese Commander in Chief in China, Lieut. General Yasuji Okamura, agreed to surrender all his sea, air and ground forces, from Manchuria's southern border to Formosa and northern Indo-China. Next day, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Central Government troops entered Nanking. They were back in China's capital just seven years, nine months and five days since they had been forced to leave the city to a brutal fate that shook the world...
They had made some contribution to the Allied war effort by their guerrilla activities, though the brunt of Chinese resistance was borne by Chiang's troops. They were dedicated to "bourgeois democracy" now, to Communism ultimately. Of Chungking they wanted a "coalition" government, a weird, hybrid sort of ad ministration in which they would share overall control but keep their army and state...
...adjusted his horn-rimmed glasses, glanced at a vase of scarlet flowers on the white-covered table, then slowly read his victory message to "the people and armies of China." Said Chiang: ". . . Our faith in justice through black and hopeless days and eight long years of struggle has today been rewarded. . . . We have won the victory...
...streets on each side of his Cadillac sedan. They crawled through police lines, hung from balconies, yelled from rooftops, held their children high to see the sight. Slowly the Generalissimo, now smiling happily, passed through the wave of jubilation. Hands were thrust in victory salutes as the people shouted: "Chiang . . . Chung kuo . . . wan sui . . . wan wan sui!-Chiang . . . China . . . live ten thousand years . . . live ten thousand ten thousand years...