Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although he was neck-deep in a detailed reporting job for TIME'S forthcoming cover story on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Dec. 6), Gruin made arrangements to evacuate his family from Shanghai (they are now on their way back to the U.S.). After a trip to Britain's Hong Kong to file some copy and get some rest, Doyle cabled: "Since my wife and I came to China unencumbered with household goods, we can watch with a relaxed eye the pell-mell evacuation of Shanghai by those with loads of furniture and the ever present tung...
...next day, with Mrs. Marshall, she drove to the hospital to visit the Secretary of State. He had made a secret sortie to the White House that noon, but he was back in time to chat with Madame Chiang Kai-shek for an hour. The day after, Marshall entertained her and Mrs. Marshall at lunch at the hospital...
...week's end, though Madame Chiang had a promise from Harry Truman that he would see her, there was no official indication that the Administration had budged from its belief that there was almost nothing it could do to help China...
...collapse of the Chiang Kai-shek government is a result of the conditions which have developed under it in China. China, Fairbanks said, suffers under inflation, corruption in government, a police dictatorship, lack of food and clothing, and a general air of no hope...
Millitary aid from the United States to Chiang Kai-shek's tottering government could only temporarily halt the Communist armies and would fail to solve the Chinese problem, John K. Fairbank, associate professor of History, said last night...