Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Donald, trusted and powerful confidential adviser to Chinese leaders from Sun Yat-sen to Chiang Kaishek, turned up last week, safe & sound, in one of the Manila prison camps. He had been a prisoner since 1942, when the Japs caught him on his way back to China from New Zealand via the Philippines. Obviously, he had used a false name to fool his captors...
...They failed partly because they had no idea that Donald was 69 years old. They were looking for a much younger man. If they had remembered to turn to LIFE'S issue of Oct. 25, 1937, they would have found a striking likeness of him with Madame Chiang Kai-shek...
...gather the little-known facts about China and tell them to the Chinese and to the world. Donald did. In 1928, the Old Marshal, Chang Tso-lin, Warlord of Manchuria, uttered a frantic call for his services. Donald served him and, later, his son, Chang Hsueh-liang, until Chiang Kai-shek called him, soon after Japan invaded China...
...honor General Joseph Stilwell's part in the Burma campaign, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, who had forced "Vinegar Joe's" recall, last week named the newly opened Ledo-Burma highway Stilwell Road. The General was not present to see his dream of a new route from India to China come true. TIME Correspondent Theodore M. White, who was, cabled...
General Joseph W. Stilwell, U.S. hero of the retreat from Burma and sometime chief of staff to Chiang Kaishek, got a new job last week after nearly three months of idleness. Uncle Joe was made chief of the Army Ground Forces...