Word: chiangs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...organizer of the procession was the man in charge of defending the new gold yuan currency in Shanghai, deputy economic controller Major General Chiang Ching-kuo, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Russian-educated elder son. A chubby, earnest man who looks much younger than his 39 years, Chiang believes in going to the people. On Tuesday and Thursday afternoons he holds open house in his office in Shanghai's Central Bank of China to hear the public's complaints...
Roosevelt thought it could be arranged. On the question of whether Roosevelt had discussed any of these matters with Chiang Kaishek, Sherwood is confusing; he first reports yes on Dairen, later no. At any rate, the conferees discussed whether Chiang Kai-shek should be told...
Stalin said he would let Roosevelt know when F.D.R. should break the news to Chiang Kaishek. "Roosevelt said that he would send an Army officer from Washington through Moscow to Chungking with instructions to Ambassador Hurley, in order to insure secrecy...
Conversation also turned to the problem of keeping China alive. Wrote Sherwood: "Stalin felt that China would remain alive. He added that they needed some new leaders around Chiang Kai-shek . . . The President said the fault lay more with the Chungking government than with the so-called Communists...
Died. General Feng Yu-hsiang, 67, China's gargantuan (6 ft. 4 in., 270 lbs.) "Christian General," as he was sailing back to China "to help overthrow" Chiang Kaishek; in a fire aboard the Russian motorship Pobeda, in the Black Sea. An up-from-the-ranks peasant soldier, Feng participated in Dr. Sun Yat-sen's 1911 coup against the Manchus, reputedly baptized his troops with a garden hose after he became a Methodist in 1913. His quick-change loyalties led him to support and then betray Chiang at least four times...