Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, press conferences have occurred during the absence of President Roosevelt. Soviet communiques are published without an order of the day by Stalin." Now the question was: What are they waiting for? The first answer came from Cairo and Washington: only Chiang has been with Roosevelt and Churchill up to this week; newsmen were told that further word from Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin would come "from time to time." The word to Japan: the U.S., China, Britain will beat Tokyo into "unconditional surrender." For their word, the Germans would have to wait a while. Americans could imagine the state of Germans...
...officially, because of his partial deafness. Major Chennault told a friend: "I'm glad to get out [of the Air Corps]. They're still running it with the old 1917-18 ideas." That same year the dark, determined Louisianian went to Shanghai and became Chiang Kai-shek's air adviser. "Why," he had growled, "should I worry my brains out when I can prove my theories somewhere else?" In a few months, the Japs almost wiped out his infant air force, but Chennault did not regret his move or noticeably pine for the U.S. Air Corps...
...still "two wars." Only Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Chiang Kai-shek were together when the war with Japan was plotted to its intended finish of "unconditional surrender" The President, the Prime Minister, Joseph Stalin of the U.S.S.R. still had to meet to plot the finish of Germany. -The first announcement from the Pacific "Big Three" restated the obvious: "Japan shall be stripped of all the islands in the Pacific which she has seized...
...times the prewar level, which gives economists hope: the rate of doubling and redoubling seems to be slowing down. Before the great Allied victories, prices were doubling every eight months. But China's transport planes still devote precious tons to the hauling of bank notes, and President Chiang Kaishek's Government still hesitates to apply full force to arresting the tide...
...through the Jap-held hinterland for the builders of the Ledo Road (TIME. Oct. 11). In time, if all goes well, it will link India's Assam to China's Yünnan, reopen a channel of ground supply for the long-enduring people of Chiang Kaishek...