Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Asked to choose the people she would most like to meet from a list of newsworthy names, she made the following selections, in order: Mme. Chiang Kaishek, Eleanor Roosevelt, Secretary Marshall, Arturo Toscanini, Bob Hope, Kate Smith, Douglas Mac-Arthur, Joseph Stalin...
...skin is gone," said Chiang Kai-shek last week, quoting from an old proverb, "the hair will have nothing to grow on ... At a time like this, when rampant Communist rebels are confronting the nation with a serious crisis, the people, the government and the state will share the same consequences, be they good...
...yearning for peace, played up the possibility of peace talks. But with the summer's military successes, the Communists' peace price has gone up. One Nationalist official quoted a pertinent old proverb: Neng chan neng ho-Only he who can fight can make peace. The men around Chiang, even Vice President Li, an outspoken critic of the Gimo, were too staunchly anti-Communist to let China be swallowed by the Reds...
Another man mentioned as possible successor to Chiang was Defense Minister Ho Ying-chin, who leads the Whampoa Military Academy clique. If, as seems likely, the Gimo had a hand in picking his successor, he would probably prefer...
Localized Zigzags. Li, Ho or Fu (or any other successor to Chiang) would have great difficulty uniting the Kuomintang behind him. The mere mention of their names brought closer the prospect of regionalism. A trend toward decentralization has already set in, partly because the Gimo has had to rely on trusted local commanders in remote areas to equip and organize their own commands. In North China, local authorities have been buying arms for militia forces independent of the Central government, and the use of silver dollars (banned by the Central government in 1935) has spread. In Manchuria, General...