Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Chungking, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek sent orders that the Chinese military mission which came to the U.S. last April-to plan a united strategy against the Jap in the Far East-should return home. No explanation was given. None was needed...
...great leaders of the United Nations 1942 was another story. China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek struggled on stubbornly against China's internal problems and the invading Japanese. Britain's Winston Churchill, Man of 1940, delivered victory in Egypt after standing on the verge of defeat. Franklin Roosevelt, Man of 1941, shouldered mountainous problems, solved some, left others still crying to be solved. He successfully brought the weight of the U.S. to bear against the Axis. But the 1942 accomplishments of Chiang, of Churchill and of Roosevelt will not bear fruit till...
...Peking. As control changed, he went back to Wu and served as Minister of Industry in Wu's Cabinet. Before the year was out he deserted Wu, made peace again with Chang Tso-lin and became governor of the Harbin district in Manchuria. He was there when Chiang Kai-shek marched into Nanking and consolidated his Nationalist Government. Most of the other war lords joined Chiang then. But not Chang. He sulked in Manchuria and tried a new bargain-this time with the Japanese. For that he earned the premiership of Manchukuo...
...thought of General Chennault's Christmas greeting to Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kaishek: "On this sixth wartime Christmas the China Air Task Force joins me in extending to Your Excellencies and our comrades in arms, the Chinese Army, our sincerest holiday greetings at this period of the year when all men gather to do honor to the Prince of Peace. The fighters and bombers of the American Air Forces in China pledge themselves in His name to keep faith and comradeship until they have brought peace to this land and to all free men everywhere...
...Department order which would have stopped all scientific compendia. Finally, after approving the Aerosphere's text (and deleting much recent data which manufacturers had offered), the War Department ordered 300 copies. Publisher Thorp intends to present copies to the Chinese, British and Russian Embassies for forwarding to Chiang Kaishek, Churchill and Stalin. Other foreigners who order copies must be approved...