Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chiang Kai-shek last week made his most important pronouncement on postwar policy. The Generalissimo recommended...
Statesman Chiang's words were a sharp reminder that now more than ever, since they are winning the war, the United Nations need to get together, add up their points and make a plan for winning the peace...
...Chiang Kai-shek told newsmen in Chungking she had nearly wound up on a Jap airfield on her way home. Her pilot, confused by radio signals from the field, had headed for it, then pulled away on a hunch. "I was feeling so sick at that moment," said Madame, "that I did not care where we landed. . . . I belong to the land and not to the sea or air." Reporting on the wartime U. S., she mentioned the hairpin and elastic shortage, but could give no word on girdles because, unlike the late John Barrymore, "I don't wear...
China's Voice. In these six years of trial and endurance, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, more than any other man, has grown in stature as the symbol of a nation. Many a Chinese finds fault with the social and political views of this strong, indomitable leader who rose from China's minor gentry to direct 450,000,000 people. But none fails to see him as the chief artisan of resistance and final victory over Japan, of equality at the table of the nations...
Since then Chiang has spoken often, though his words have not always been heard abroad. On the Triple Seven anniversary the record of his words was spread before the English-speaking world in Resistance and Reconstruction (Harper; $3.50), a compilation of 60 of Chiang's most important messages. Through them China truly speaks...