Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...becomes Russia -"one end of Leo is a perfect sickle and the other end is much more like a hammer than any part of a lion." Lenin, Stalin and Timoshenko are brightly starred, with "room still for such names as Sevastopol and Smolensk and Stalingrad." China gets Cygnus (Chiang Kai-shek for Deneb, Confucius for Albireo, etc.). Germany and Japan get nary a one, but Hitler and Mussolini are placed in the constellation Draco (the Snake) renamed The Tyrants. Sirius, brightest star in the sky, falls in the constellation of South Africa and is called Smuts. There are constellations...
Chen Pu-lei, The Gissimo's thin secretary, is probably closest to him of all. Chen, 53, from the Gissimo's home province (Chekiang), was a distinguished journalist until he became Chiang's secretary in 1935. His importance rests in his determining who sees Chiang and what Chiang sees...
...Ying-Chin, 54, runs the Army. He joined Sun Yat-sen and Chiang in Canton as the nationalist revolution broke out, led one of the three armies in Chiang's campaign against the northern warlords in 1926. He has been Chief of Staff ever since. Ferociously antiCommunist, with several pet hates in his own Army, he holds all the strings and politically fears nothing. He works closely with Dr. H. H. Kung, 62, who controls Civil Administration. Brother-in-law of the Gissimo, "Daddy" Kung has for many years controlled Government finances, and is a great believer in printed...
...Wang Chung-hui, 61, are Chiang's philosophers. Tai, Kuomintang's leading theoretician and head of the Examination Yuan, has great influence on the Gissimo's thinking. Cautious, scholarly Wang is secretary general of the Supreme National Defense Council, which makes major decisions...
Modest Hollington Tong, 56, is Chiang's main official link with the English-speaking world. Officially, he is Vice Minister of Publicity, unofficially the Gissimo's interpreter (Madame sits by and interprets Tong's interpretations). Tong accompanied Madame to the U.S. last November...