Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...astute move cut two ways. The appointment of U.S.-educated T. V. Soong, who more than any other Chinese has in the past showed a grasp of Western methods, men and purposes, could scarcely fail to please the U.S. and simplify the task of Chiang's U.S. advisers, Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley and Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, Chief of the joint U.S.-Chinese General Staff...
...armies battled grimly forward in eastern China (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), Generalissimo Chiang Kai:shek streamlined his Government to keep political pace with them. In order to devote full time to his No. 1 job, strategy and the Army, he resigned his post as China's Premier. To succeed him, he appointed his brother-in-law, hustling, bustling, U.S.-trained Tse-veng Soong, who since last December has been Acting Premier. Simultaneously, another brother-in-law, H. H. Kung, also resigned as Vice President of the Executive Yuan. For some time, Kung has been seriously ill with kidney trouble...
...talk with Marshal Joseph Stalin. One probable subject of conversation: Chungking's (and Russia's) relations with the Chinese Communists at Yenan. A lessening of China's internal struggle would please practically everybody. But it seemed unlikely that Premier Soong, any more than Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, would compromise on the basic issue which has shattered all efforts at agreement between the Communists and the Chinese Government-Yenan's insistence that it be permitted to maintain an independent army...
...General Chu Teh and other party leaders bravely flexed their political muscles and claimed that they commanded a regular army of 910,000 men (last fall it was 570,000), 2,200,000 partisans, 1,200,000 party members and territories inhabited by 95,000,000 Chinese. They called Chiang's proposed constitutional convention a "mockery of democracy," charged that it would be Kuomintang-packed, accused Chungking's "ruling clique" of preparing to launch a civil...
...relative aloofness between Russia and Chungking, there is now undisguised hostility. Moscow's War and the Working Class has tossed epithets like "Mihailovich" and "Quisling" at Kuomintang leaders. Izvestia has belittled T. V. Soong's administrative reforms. Bolshevik has praised Yenan's army and called Chiang's troops "passive spectators at best" in the fight against Japan. A Russian bestseller, Alexander Stepanov's novel Port Arthur, claimed Manchuria's key port as "Russian soil...