Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hearts. It was not the words. In any other month they might have sounded flat. It was the woman, the way she clutched her handkerchief and brought her tight hand down on the desk for emphasis, the flash in her eyes which reflected something deep in her experience. Madame Chiang and China know the meaning of endurance. Through this woman, a few Americans saw and understood China...
...died, and the handsome young Chiang Kai-shek assumed at least the military tunic of the great revolutionist. Mei-ling Soong met him. At that time she did not actively concern herself with his politics; she heard how he broke with Moscow and she heard whispers of the way his secret societies killed off the Reds. She found herself being courted and liking it, and before long the soldier had followed Mei-ling's formidable mother to Japan to make her agree to a distasteful match (because he had been divorced and was not a Christian...
Dirty Houses. What followed changed her plenty. She left gay, comfortable, clean Shanghai and went to her husband's headquarters in shoddy Nanking. Chiang was engaged in unifying China, ruthlessly and singlemindedly. He was appeasing Japan, so that he might prepare China against Japan. Madame went with him on his campaigns. Their quarters were what they could find-thatched huts, railroad stations, farmhouses-a series of unclean places. She tidied them and wanted to tidy China. She founded the New Life Movement, dedicated to clean living. (Last week Chungking celebrated the ninth anniversary of the New Life Movement with...
...Said Chiang: "I am the Generalissimo...
...disrespectful. If you regard me as your prisoner, kill me, but don't subject me to indignities." Chiang was taken to a house under guard. There he furiously reprimanded his captor, Chang Hsueh-liang, the "Young Marshal...