Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...momentous conference in Chungking closed last week in deafening silence. For a day and a half Lord Louis Mountbatten, Allied Commander in Southeast Asia, had talked with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his wife, with top Chinese generals, with U.S. Lieut. Generals Joseph Stilwell and Brehon Somervell. Then, looking tired, with crow's-feet showing at the corners of his eyes, Lord Louis hurried back to India...
Japan, gorged with Manchurian spoils but hungry for more, reputedly supplied advisers to Ma Chung-ying. Britain, whose Indian empire verged on the area of revolt, watched with interest. Within the Great Wall, Chiang Kai-shek was simultaneously fighting a half-dozen civil wars, trying to bring his bleeding country into readiness for war with Japan. He had no strength to spare for Turkestan...
...Moslem revolt was not thoroughly quelled until the fall of 1937. By that time Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's far distant Central Government was at war with Japan and all its energy was absorbed. For Sheng Shih-tsai, the problem was simple. He represented the minority race in a vast region surcharged with racial and religious tension; his immense fear of Japanese imperialism grew as Japan drove farther and farther into the heart of Asia. Without help, he could not maintain himself. Thus, from 1934 to 1942. he leaned ever more heavily on the U.S.S.R...
...Hostel, nine typewriters locally valued at $1,200 each, and 32 cub-reporting students, Chungking's new Graduate School of Journalism of the Central Political Institute got under way last week. The founder and director is polished, ingratiating, 56-year-old Dr. Hollington Tong, pressagent extraordinary to the Chiang Kai-shek regime and biographer of the Gissimo...
...idea that China could well use as many highly trained journalists as were available long ago impressed itself on Vice Minister of Information Tong. "While touring the U.S. with Madame Chiang last winter, Columbia-Man Tong enlisted the aid of Columbia's Dean of Journalism Carl Ackerman. They got anonymous donors to put up $75,000; further funds were acquired in China...