Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that as long as the cold war continues; as long as this country proceeds on a program of militarization and superarmaments; as long as our foreign policy is based on building and sustaining reactionary and fascist governments abroad (as witness the sending of American Marines and equipment to bolster Chiang Kai-Shek) as long as the military and big businessmen of the Dulles-Forrestal variety exercise such tremendous control over this country's approach to foreign and domestic issues, that for this period, we shall remain as before: draft-bait. A sudden "emergency" could well play havoc with the "deferment...
Another measure of failure was hoarding and civil corruption. Chiang had called in son Ching-kuo (TIME, Sept. 20) to take charge of harsh drives against black markets in Shanghai. But the drive bogged down, Chinese said, when Chiang's police discovered hoarded goods in the godowns of David Kung, son of Banker H. H. Kung and nephew of Madame Chiang. The Shanghai press screamed for action, but a few days later David Kung with Madame Chiang visited the Gimo. The case was still "under investigation...
...Chiang Kai-shek is a man of principle, not an opportunist, not a warlord, not (his enemies finally admitted) a grafter. His principles, however, are not always clear or consistent. The conflict between the old and new, unresolved in China, is also unresolved in China's Chiang. He had been right so often, when those around him were wrong, that taking advice did not come easily to him. Three times-from Canton, from Sian, and from Chungking-he had fought his way out of hopeless situations. Such an experience might breed arrogance, and many believe that Chiang is arrogant...
...streak pf humility remains. He showed it recently when he and Madame Chiang, with sons Ching-kuo and Wei-kuo, went over to the Christian church which the Gimo had presented to Nanking. No pastor was present. The Gimo himself preached a little sermon, taking his text from I. Chronicles: "As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord . . . But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war . . ." Jehovah had willed the assignment...
...Chiang Kai-shek may be defeated by the Reds, largely because too many of his aids are "corrupt...