Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each time Gerald Nye belittled United Nations strategy, postwar planning, Roosevelt, Willkie, Churchill, Stalin, or Chiang Kaishek, the catcalls and clapping rocked the chandeliers, quivered against the black-and-jade glass murals...
...done in the Far East. It was therefore significant that Field Marshal Sir Archibald P. Wavell, Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell and Major General Claire L. Chennault had been called in from India and China to join the discussions. Last week, Winston Churchill sent Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek a message which could be taken as the first fruit of the Washington conference: ". . . The United Nations . . . will surely drive the Japanese invader from the soil of China." President Roosevelt, in a similar message, expressed the hope that the offensive would be launched "in the very near future...
...Quoting a sentence of Chiang Kai-shek's Christian testimony ... TIME, April 26: "This [becoming a follower of Jesus Christ] makes me realize more fully than ever that the success of our revolution depends upon men of faith, men of character, who because of their faith will not sacrifice principle for personal safety...
...next chosen assignment ("My ambition is to get to Berlin"). Behind him were Australia, the Solomons, a torpedoed aircraft carrier and a book (They Call It Pacific). Ahead was a projected itinerary that most reporters dream about. Lee hopes some day to roll into Nanking with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, into Manila with General Douglas MacArthur, and down the main street of Tokyo with Admiral Halsey and his sailors, Major General Vandegrift and his marines, under a blanket of U.S. planes "so thick that they hide the rising...
...Although Chiang's bitterest enemies, the Communists, concede that he is the only possible wartime leader, his Army and theirs are still at odds...