Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stone houses and churches of the British stood, the Japs pressed the Chinese ever backward. There were some 20,000 Japanese; the weary young Chinese commander had only 8,000 men. The Japanese had plenty of tanks and artillery; the Chinese had no tanks, almost no artillery from Chiang Kai-shek's meager stocks in China. They had to fight with rifles, pistols, light machine guns. Sometimes the Chinese called out to the Japs: "Lao hsiang (old countryman), don't fight!" But the Japs fought...
...Melbourne, General Douglas MacArthur was officially head of all United Nations forces. But Australians, demanding more voice in strategy decisions in Washington (and likely to get it), would also have ideas on how their home troops should be used. Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell, Chief of Staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, controlled U.S. forces in India, Burma and China, as well as the Fifth and Sixth Chinese armies in Burma. But most of China's forces were naturally under Generalissimo Chiang. These problems of command ceased to be problems with the High Command working smoothly. Along the Bataan...
Stilwell's Business. There was one bright note: the cocky optimism of Lieut.-General Joseph W. Stilwell, hard-bitten, Chinese-speaking U.S. officer sent by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to command Chinese reinforcements in Burma (TIME, March 23). Last week Washington disclosed that General Stilwell was also in command of all U.S. forces in Burma, China and India. Stilwell believes in getting close to his men; he was already referring to the Fifth and Sixth Chinese armies in Burma as "my armies." Those ragged, clean and tough young fighters chewed up a band of 300 queasy Thai troops near...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week appointed a U.S. Army officer his Chief of Staff. The officer: peppery Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell...
...effort. A recent Indian cartoon showed the Viceroy hunting, with the legend: "This week the Viceroy shot down 247 enemy partridges." His persistence in official dignities has come in for criticism. He still uses a ten-car viceregal train, steps from it to scarlet carpets. Last month, when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek paid his momentous visit to India, the Viceroy sent an aide to welcome him instead of going himself...