Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Madame Chiang Kaishek, who arrived in Brazil in July for a three-month "rest-cure," prepared to travel on to the U.S. for "badly needed" medical treatment...
Reclaiming Lost Legions. The Chinese high command tried to weaken the Jap blow by staging a diversion far to the north, around Ichang on the Yangtze River. But Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek knew that something more than a diversion was needed. Even as Hengyang was falling, he had put the finishing touches to a plan for Army reform which would doubtless meet opposition from vested military interests, a plan whose terms proclaimed that all was far from well in China's war-worn Army. Its chief points...
...acres of land. There is one cow per ten soldiers, one pig per two soldiers, one sheep or goat per soldier.This arrangement gives each a daily ration of 2 Ibs. of grain, 2 Ibs.of vegetables, and each gets 6 lbs. of meat per month. The rations of most of Chiang Kai-shek's troops are not so good...
Meanwhile reports persisted that Chungking was shaky. A crisis, or a political reorientation, might be approaching. What role would astute Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek play? What would the Chinese Communists...
...Generalissimo flew into a rage. The official quailed before one of Chiang's famed tongue-lashings. Finally Chiang ordered the conscripts unroped. Then he stalked home and issued another order-for an investigation...