Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...collapsed on the steps of a building, too exhausted to unstrap the baby she carried on her back. As she slept, clutching a beggar's cup in her hand, the picture she made was a picture of Nationalist China itself. Last week the bad news that poured into Chiang Kai-shek's tottering capital would have exhausted even the strongest...
Pound, who has just returned from conducting a survey of the administration of justice in Eastern China, praised Chiang Kai-shek for his firm support of the Chinese constitution, the report said...
...Chiang Kai-shek's troops will fight back, and the seat of government, when threatened, will withdraw south from Nanking to Shanghai, to Canton, even to Kunming if necessary, he is supposed to have said...
...Chiang cannot accept the unconditional surrender terms of the Communists, according to Pound, because in doing so he would be abolishing the constitution, the report continues...
...high-riding Reds seemed to have no thought of making peace except on their own terms. A three-day radio barrage hammered out an anti-Chiang theme built around oft-repeated symbols of "reactionaries," "war criminals," and "running dogs of American imperialism." The big guns of Communist artillery then poured shells into Tientsin, North China's leading industrial and commercial city, where a quarter of a million men had been conscripted to build defense works...