Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists spurned Chiang's offer. Their reason: fear that they would get only minor Government jobs, and that their Army would be wiped...
...Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley kept up his efforts to bring about agreement. Meanwhile, reported the President's investigator: "Chiang said that Americans expect his Government to make all the concessions. Why don't we [the U.S.] try to get the Yenan group to make some...
...There Still Time?" Investigator Mansfield thought that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's newly reorganized Government showed promise of accomplishing sorely needed reforms. War Minister Chen Cheng seemed determined to improve China's poorly fed, poorly trained, poorly led army. Foreign Minister and acting head of the Executive Yuan, T. V. Soong appeared a good choice to stop China's spiraling inflation, civilian profiteering. But, asked Mansfield, "has Chiang gone far enough, or does he intend to, and is there still time? China used to be able to trade space for time but now she has very little...
...biggest problem, Mansfield conceded that unity was easier to talk about than to achieve. He made known the terms of Chiang's latest offer to the Communists: 1) recognition as a legal party; 2) equipment for the Communist Army on the basis of equality; 3) participation in the Government...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek made the biggest New Year's resolution of them all, promised his people constitutional government, not within a year after the end of hostilities, but before...