Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After long, bitter weeks of misunderstanding, Chungking reported that the Chinese had at last reached an understanding with Great Britain's General Sir Archibald Wavell. King George conferred the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. The Chinese now feel free to send additional troops into Burma. There they fight under their own commanders, who are in turn responsible to Chiang Kai-shek's Chief of Staff, U.S. Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell...
...already. Soviet spokesmen (including Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff in Washington) no longer cried specifically for a second front in Europe; they insisted that the one supremely vital front was in Russia, that the one Allied task, above all, was to supply that front. MacArthur in Australia, the vital Mid-East, Chiang Kai-shek in China, General Wavell in India, Britain herself, U.S. forces stationed from Hawaii to Iceland-all these called as well for supply. Last week a London naval analyst listed Britain's most important lines (the Indian Ocean, her route to Russia via Murmansk, her north Atlantic route...
Skis and Chinese are a rare photographic combination. At Sun Valley, Idaho two members of an illustious family produced it-Pearl and Tsi Suon, grandchildren of the late great Dr. Sun Yatsen, grandniece and grandnephew of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
...drama bogged down in the unreadable "statements" of politicians, it was energized from the wings. Two magnificent prompters were heard: the President of the great republic of the New World sent a personal messenger with a note to "someone" on the Indian stage; and a Chinese soldier, Chiang Kaishek, publicly intervened to advise India to join with the white man's empire to fight for freedom everywhere. Meanwhile, the enemy advanced-a horde of savage fighters from the far-off islands of Japan, and, looming beyond the northwest mountains, Hitler's Legions of Nihilism...
...figures ready to join the waxen ranks of the great in Mme. Tussaud's in London, world's most famed waxworks: General Douglas MacArthur, Sir Stafford Cripps, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...