Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Columnist Raymond Clapper, frankly dazed by the show: "Some day they may put Helen Hayes in the part, but she'll never do it any better than Madame Chiang acted it in real life...
...Chiang Kai-shek delicately drew attention to her weary country last week (see p. 23), the Chinese war reappeared in the news...
...Chungking was only mildly disturbed. Tokyo has often made the boast before. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek occupied himself on Chungking's South Bank, correcting the proofs of his new book. Chungking spokesmen declined to tremble...
...Senators watched in curious silence as Madame Chiang walked down the aisle of the Senate Chamber. They saw a still face with big dark eyes. They saw a slim, straight figure in a black Chinese gown, with here a tiny splash of jade, there a black sequin's understated sparkle. Madame Chiang stepped to the rostrum, listened as Vice President Wallace introduced her, shot a smile at the Senators, and then, after apologizing for not having a set speech, knocked their silvery blocks off extemporaneously...
...told how one of General Doolittle's flyers, forced to bail out on Chinese soil after bombing Tokyo, had seen the populace running toward him, had waved and shouted the only Chinese word he knew: "Mei-kuo, Mei-kuo"-America, America (literally, said Madame Chiang, "beautiful country"). "Our people laughed and almost hugged him and greeted him like a long-lost brother...