Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek left his summer villa for a stroll in the countryside. He rounded a bend in the road, stopped short. Ahead of him, a civilian with a gun was herding three men who were roped together...
...Madame Chiang Kaishek, resting on Brazil's Brocoio Island off Rio de Janeiro (TIME, July 24), was reported inclined toward U.S.-style cooking. Restaurateur Alfredo Balbis, catering to her party, also said that though her diet forbids seafood, she demanded shrimp and got it. Other items in demand: Coca-Cola, mineral water, port...
Democratic Talk. For China's inner discord, War and the Working Class blamed not the Chinese Communists but Chiang Kaishek. "For years a great part of Chiang's best troops, headed by the most experienced generals and officers, have been 'guarding' China from the 'Communists' . . . who are waging a continuous, active, partisan war against the greater portion of the combined Japanese and puppet Chinese troops...
...Chiang was urged to look to Communist Marshal Tito for a model. "The Army of Marshal Tito has 300,000 while Chiang's has 3,000,000. Nevertheless, the success of the Yugoslav Army is obvious, which cannot be said at the present time for the National Government of China. This is explained by the powerful unity of the Yugoslav peoples." China's unity, said War and the Working Class, "can be achieved only on the base of democracy...
Democratic Action. As if in answer to this challenge, the Chungking Government last week took a big democratic step. On recommendation of President Chiang Kaishek, it approved a habeas corpus act. Thus, for the first time in their history, the Chinese people (unlike the Russian people) were guaranteed against imprisonment without trial...