Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about-face in the propaganda line with regard to China, coincident with the recall of General Stilwell, is as indecent as that of the Communist line in this country at the time of Germany's attack on Russia. For years we have been fed the story of Chiang Kai-shek's wonderful accomplishment of uniting the Chinese people and of holding off the Japs, which is now being belittled. Our correspondents complain of the censorship and not being allowed to visit the Chinese front. Are they any more restricted than in Russia, from whose fronts even our military...
General Pat landed in China last September to confer with Chiang Kai-shek at a tragically low point in China's fortunes. The Chungking Government, after seven years of war, was teetering on the brink of economic and military disaster. With the recall to Washington of General Joe Stilwell and Ambassador Clarence E. Gauss, Diplomat Hurley took over the thankless, monumental job of watching out for the best interests of both the U.S. and Ally China. It was not Pat's first hard chore...
...Chungking, whence he flew fortnight ago with a staff of 13 production experts, ex-WPBoss Donald Nelson was busy setting up a WPB for Chiang Kaishek. Every few days he took time out from his labors to issue enthusiastic bulletins: he had not struck a single snag so far; his goal is to double China's war production in six months. Finally he just came right out and said flatly: "This will be the best mission that ever came to China...
Another disciple was a reserved, willowy young man named Chiang Kaishek. After Dr. Sun's death (1925), Wang and Chiang were two of a triumvirate* who inherited the direction of China's revolution. But it was an uneasy partnership. Chiang was a soldier, Wang an intellectual. Chiang inclined to the middle way; Wang was now a leftist, now a rightist. When Chiang drove the Chinese Communists and their Russian advisers out of the Kuomintang and China, Wang again went abroad to rest up and intrigue. Later he made peace with Chiang, returned to China to become president...
Wang suffered another crisis after Japan began the "China incident" (1937). First an ardent advocate of Chinese resistance, he later changed his mind, plumped for a "peaceful settlement" with Japan. One day, while still chairman of the central political council and second in command to Chiang Kaishek, he slipped away from Chungking to Nanking. Japan, looking fora puppet, grabbed him eagerly, made him premier and president of the Axis-recognized Nanking government. For this crowning act of apostasy the Chinese erected in Chungking a life-size statue of Wang, naked and grovelling, for all to spit upon...