Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cairo the Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek were the first to arrive, flying in from Chungking aboard a four-engined U.S. transport plane. Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, with their separate parties, traveled to Africa by ship, made the last leg of the trip by plane...
Britain's contingent was even bigger. China's delegation was small by comparison: ten officers headed by General Shang Cheng, Director of Foreign Affairs of the National Military Council; Chiang Kai-shek acted only as head of his political mission, consulting with Roosevelt and Churchill on general questions but attending none of the military discussions...
President Roosevelt, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Prime Minister Churchill declared at Cairo...
...news stories of the year-the meeting of Churchill, Chiang Kai-shek and Roosevelt at Cairo-Reuters had scooped the pants off the U.S. press. The result almost reached the proportions of an inter-Allied incident...
Furthermore the U.S. press, that had long ago submitted to the yoke of voluntary censorship, was getting quite used to it. The conference ended, the conferees moved on-Chiang back to China, Roosevelt and Churchill to an "unknown destination" to meet Joseph Stalin. And in Washington on Tuesday morning, U.S. newsmen met with Presidential Secretary Steve Early to get the official communiqué about the meeting and the conferees' decision to whittle from Japan the empire it had been accumulating by force and guile since...