Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sent a succession of special envoys, including General George C. Marshall, to mediate between Chiang and Mao Tse-tung. U.S. mediation merely succeeded in holding up Chiang's forces for nine months in 1945-46 while the Reds...
When the Communists seized Changchun, Harbin and Tsisihar, Chiang ordered an all-out offensive. Was he wrong? Was a "military solution" (in the language of U.S. experts in China) ever possible? Or should Chiang have admitted Communists into his government-while allowing them to keep separate, Red-commanded army divisions...
...difference between Chiang Kai-shek and a Western European, such as the late Jan Masaryk, was that Chiang never believed that his Communists were "different." He had known them too long, had sensed better than many men in the West that there was no position of neutrality one could take with Communists. Mao Tse-tung had put it very well: "To use the word 'neutral' is to do nothing but cheat oneself...
Sunrise to Sunset. Chiang had counted on sustained U.S. aid. He had not got it. By last week, in addition to the territory Chiang had lost to the Reds (two-fifths of China), the Nationalists had suffered troop casualties of perhaps 1,800,000 men -a third of them lost as prisoners and turncoats since last July...
Chinese respected the Gimo's indomitable will, his stubborn national pride, but they had a sharp sense, that he-and they -had failed. One measure of that failure, some of them felt, was the performance of Chiang's own Whampoa Academy generals. Said one Chinese bitterly last week: "They are old and tired; in 20 years they have passed from the sunrise to the sunset." Some had turned carpetbagger. In one instance, soldiers defending Mukden watched a planeload of payday currency signed over to an army general and flown back to his bank in Shanghai. The government...