Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four men gathered to name this future. From Great Britain came Winston Churchill, who has the appetite for life; from China, Chiang Kaishek, who has the passion of patience; from Soviet Russia, Joseph Stalin, who has the know-how of survival; from the U.S., Franklin Roosevelt, who has the sense of history. And each of these four men could show some credentials as Man of the Year...
...last he came out on the platform. Curtly canceling the program, Chiang snapped the sternest rebuke he has ever given in public...
...Chiang Kai-shek sat alone in a room adjoining the Kuomintang auditorium in Chungking. In the hall itself waited 500 Party delegates, government leaders, scholars, celebrities. Before them on the platform stood nine fine bronze tings.* They were inscribed with a classical eulogy, of a type which Chinese tradition reserves for the greatest of men. Copied from ancient models, the vessels carried a symbolic message which was capable of affecting history...
...presentation ceremonies had been planned with delicate subtlety. When Chiang arrived, the sponsors of the occasion led him into the adjoining room and offered him 25 minutes of solitude 'to contemplate his soul...
...Chiang Kai-shek was concerned-and his alone was the power-the 450 million Chinese would keep on their road toward democracy. They would suffer no Son of Heaven...