Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese invaders from without. At the same time she had held off the Communists from within. To win against overwhelming Japanese odds, she had retreated from Peiping, from Shanghai, from Nanking, from Canton. To seal off the Communists, she had maintained a blockade against Yenan. Time, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had reasoned, would give his Allies a chance to come to China's aid. So he had traded space for time. But after seven years of unflagging resistance, tired China was running short of space as well as time. At that moment Japan struck again, had cut China...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had been fighting from the days when, as a young officer, he had helped Sun Yat-sen organize China's democratic revolution. He had fought the war lords, he had fought the Communists, he had fought the Japanese. When it was no longer possible to hold against the Japanese, he had organized the retreat. In Chungking he had organized the resistance. By an act of inflexible will, which could brook no opposition because it must remain inflexible, the Generalissimo had held together China's battered, wasting strength. He knew there were abuses-there...
Last month it became clear to tired Chiang Kaishek, as to tired China, that reforms could not wait. for victory-that Allied help, until then too little, would be too late, that China, as usual, must rely upon China. Somehow China and Chiang found the strength. Chiang gave his armies a new, energetic Minister of War-young, able General Chen Cheng (TIME, Nov. 27). Just as important, Chiang had reorganized his civil administration. To China's No. 2 job, Acting President of the Executive Yuan, he appointed China's ablest administrator, his brother-in-law, Foreign Minister...
...Christian and returned to China to father one of the world's most distinguished broods of children. T.V. is the brother of the famed Soong sisters, China's three first ladies— Ching-ling (Madame Sun Yat-sen), Ailing (Madame H. H. Kung), Mei-ling (Madame Chiang Kai-shek). Of Soong's three sons, only T. V. has rivaled his sisters in place and prestige...
...relationship to the U.S., he urged the need for ever closer Chinese-American cooperation. He regretted that Donald Nelson (China's new WPBoss, now in Australia arranging for suplies) had not come to Chungking a year ago. Of U.S. Ambassador Pat Hurley and Major General Albert C. Wedemeyer (Chiang's chief of staff), he says: "We are on intimate terms. They see the main issues and they see them clearly." For T.V. still believes what he used to say in pre-Pearl Harbor days: "The wars in Europe and Asia are parts of one great struggle-the struggle...