Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighting the war in Asia rather than on Japan's home soil. Nevertheless, he predicted that the Japanese could be defeated within a year after victory over Germany. The U.S., said he, would concentrate on supply for Chinese troops, continue air support for the Chinese Army. To Chiang Kai-shek he submitted recommendations ("simple and I hope sound") for immediate action against the enemy, kept his fingers crossed for speedy success in north Burma...
...Chungking this week Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek took the step that all friends of China had hoped for-he moved to strengthen his Government...
...ablest and most honest soldiers (TiME, June 16, 1941). It was General Chen who last year turned back an incipient Japanese drive on Chungking. It was he who helped organize the successful Chinese expeditionary force now fighting in North Burma. A protégé of Generalfssimo Chiang (who officiated at his wedding), General Chen is a veteran of Kuomintang campaigns against warlords and Communists. But of all Kuomintang generals, he is generally regarded as persona gratissima with the Communists. A realist who is perfectly sure of his own democratic political faith, he gets along easily with Chou Enlai, Yenan...
Only visionaries or political infants supposed that Generalissimo Chiang's reorganization of his Government would instantly change the course of the war, now going heavily against the Chinese, or would immediately remove all the causes of the criticism which has been leveled at Chungking and Chiang. But Chiang had shown new resolution at a moment when even some of his friends had begun to wonder...
Reform of Production. Almost simultaneously with his governmental shakeup, Generalissimo Chiang launched a sweeping reform of China's war production. A new War Production Board, headed by slight, scholarly Dr. Wong Wen-hao, was charged with coordinating all agencies dealing with production. From the U.S. came an economic mission, headed by ex-WPBoss Donald Nelson. Its job: to help Dr. Wong...