Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nanking, the news brought a Honan delegation clamoring to the office of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. He told them: "Don't worry. Reinforcements are on the way. Kaifeng must be defended." That afternoon, the Reds breached Kaifeng's walls. The despairing Honan delegation camped for seven hours on Chiang's doorstep. They begged him to go in person to save the situation...
Next day, accompanied by Madame Chiang and with an air escort of fighters, the Gimo flew for a look at the Honan front. Over embattled Kaifeng, it was said, he talked by radio phone to the defenders...
When The Churchman, the nation's oldest religious journal, offered its annual "Good Will Award" to Secretary of State George Marshall last fall, a State Department aide readily accepted for the secretary. In previous years the award had gone to such distinguished figures as Madame Chiang Kaishek, Wendell Willkie and General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Then someone took another look at The Churchman and its editor, Guy Emery Shipler...
...auto smashup 14 years ago. He has no political following: though a member of the Kuomintang, he is generally considered an independent. Most of his life has been passed in the relative obscurity of the Geological Institute and on university teaching staffs. He entered government service in 1935 at Chiang Kai-shek's repeated requests, rose rapidly to ministerial rank. Before becoming Premier his job was that of Minister of Economic Affairs...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek decided on Dr. Wong when his first two choices refused. Stocky Chang Chun, the Gimo's sworn brother and old comrade in arms, had been Premier during the military and economic disasters of the past year. Complaining of chronic bronchitis, chronic fatigue and chronic criticism, Chang said he had had enough. When the Gimo appealed to him in the name of their old friendship, asked him to continue as Premier, Chang answered: "Friendship is friendship, and business is business. This is business-and I can't bear it any longer." The following...