Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trucks were already moving supplies from the Ledo railhead over "Pick's Pike" to Myitkyina. The first convoy got through to Tengyueh in China via "Chiang's Lane," the narrow alternate roadway 50,000 coolies had hacked over 8,000-ft. mountains. When last-ditch Jap suicide squads are cleaned up, other convoys, using the old Burma Road from Wanting north, would help feed China's munitions-starved armies...
...Communists are now considering setting up an independent organization in North China, to be styled United Committee of Democratic China or some name of similar character. If this is done, it means that henceforth there will be two open claimants of Chinese sovereignty: Chiang Kai-shek's Government, recognized by the outside world, and a Communist state, governing 80 million people and controlling an army of 600,000. Settlement of China's internal differences by peaceful means would become highly unlikely...
...Chungking last week the key man in eight months of stormy negotiations still held open the door. Said Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
...Mansfield, Chiang's suggestion for U.S. pressure on Yenan's Communists made sound sense. But he regarded continued U.S. support of Chiang as making even sounder sense. Said...
...Chiang is the one man who can make Chinese unity and independence a reality. His faults can be understood when the complexities of the Chinese puzzle are studied . . . and they are no more uncommon than the faults of other leaders of the United Nations. We are committed to Chiang and we will help him to the best of our ability. He, and he alone, can untangle the present situation because, in spite of some of the things he has done, he is China...