Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine months the U.S. had had no China policy beyond indecisive hostility and righteous advice for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government. From behind the scenes came rumors that the U.S. was preparing to pull out of China and rest its Asiatic defense on Japan and the Philippine Islands. Ostensibly, the Wedemeyer report was designed to help George Marshall decide what, if anything, to do next. The choice was between aid to China or abandonment of her 400 million people to the threat of Communism...
Said President Chiang Kai-shek last fortnight: "The mistake most of our comrades make is that they show too much tendency to rely upon foreign help. . . . Those who have energy must give energy; those who have money must give money." Ex-Premier T. V. Soong, one of China's wealthiest men and the President's brother-in-law, responded promptly...
...Szechuan-born peasants, Liu Po-cheng early became a soldier, fighting the warlords' battles. In one early encounter, he lost an eye and gained his nickname. During the brief marriage of the Kuomintang and the Communists, he fought for Chiang Kaishek. After Chiang split with the Communists, Liu went to the Moscow Military Academy. On the Communists' famous retreat into Shensi (1934-35), Liu negotiated with savage Lolo chieftains to give the Communists safe passage through their forests. To seal their agreement, Liu and the Lolos' high chieftain drank newly killed chicken's blood. They swore...
...cheng is commander of the Communists' Shantung-Shensi-Hopeh-Honan military areas. Chinese Communists, who regard him as a master of mobile warfare, have a new nickname for him: Chang-shen Chiang-chun (Always Victorious General...
...story really softens one's heart," wrote one susceptible newsman as Yen's colleagues began circulating a petition to Mme. Chiang. But it was all hopeless. The deadline remained unchanged. Said Fang Chih, Kuomintang leader: "I think no patriotic man or woman wants to embrace each other under soft lights. . . . Dancing girls could be trained to acquire useful talents in reconstructing the country and wiping out bandits...