Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was the view of the U.S. 1944 election which the world took. To America's allies and friends, Franklin Roosevelt's re-election was a vote for U.S. participation in the ordering of the world, an endorsement of the working partnership of Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt and Chiang Kaishek, both in war & peace - and a promise that this time the U.S. would not withdraw. Political leaders abroad no longer hid their relief...
...simple fact. General Stilwell has done extremely well. I'm very fond of him personally. . . . You all have your likes and dislikes because you're all extremely human. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and General Stilwell had had certain fallings out, oh, quite a while ago; and finally the other day, the Generalissimo asked that somebody be sent to replace General Stilwell. And we did it. . . . It's just one of them things...
...House announcement, published only three months after Stilwell had been made the Army's sixth four-star general,* was a crisp, close-mouthed paragraph. It gave no explanation of General Stilwell's unceremonious removal from his glamorous list of jobs as 1) Chief of Staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek; 2) Deputy to Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten. Commander in Chief of Allied Forces, Southeast Asia; 3) U.S. Commander of the China-Burma-India theater...
...sequel was inevitable. Stilwell and Chiang must part...
...last the real friends of China were beginning to talk back to China's detractors. It was high time. For China desperately needed the U.S. and the U.S. needed China. But relations between President Roosevelt and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had never been worse...