Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record is emasculated in its own turn by the fact that . . . [he] presently makes a very handsome living from the operation of an airline which lifts relief supplies for the Chinese government. It is not likely that he would jeopardize his livelihood by voicing anything but fulsome praise for Chiang...
...Chiang, Old Chiang, we are sorry...
...expedition was headed by Baltimore-raised Moon F. Chin, once Chiang Kai-shek's personal pilot. "I don't think the mountains are as high as Mr. Reynolds claims," he said. "But we might as well see." With him went 14 Chinese and foreign correspondents, two technicians, and a Chinese crew armed with radar equipment...
...bare floodlit stage of Nanking's National Assembly hall strode the Gimo, erect and austere in five-starred military khaki. He took his stand under a backdrop portrait of Sun Yat-sen while 2,500 Assembly delegates applauded.Then Chiang Kai-shek reported on the state of the nation...
...more than an hour and a half he spoke in his high-pitched Chekiang accent. He used no prepared text, for he needed none. In all the world no man knew better than Chiang that China's portion was present pain and future hope. He spoke first of the pain: "I confess seven of the government's best divisions were destroyed in Manchuria. They were my best armies-armies that under my command accomplished the revolutionary campaign with glory...