Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...become a magistrate. A report had reached Chen's ears, once, that an old woman carrying water through the fields had met some thirsty Government scouts. They drank from her earthen jars and went off. Wrathful Chen had summoned the old woman. "Why did you cooperate with Chiang's troops?" he shouted. "Why did you give them water to drink?" Then crying, "We must make an example," Magistrate Chen had ordered her head...
Once Smoky tried to telephone Chiang Kaishek; on another occasion he tried to talk to Manuel Avila Camacho, then President of Mexico. Last week Smoky got the urge again, picked up the phone in his Oelwein, Iowa hotel, and said: "Get me the Kremlin in Moscow." Four hours later, on a line which crackled and buzzed, he was put through to Moscow...
Your admirable piece on Chen Li-fu [TIME, May 26] should quiet the notion that support for Chiang Kai-shek will prevent collectivism. Chen's goal, "key industries owned by the state," suggests what's ahead...
Before the People's Political Council, advisory body to Chiang Kai-shek's Government, impetuous, energetic Pan Chaoying, director of the influential Catholic Social Welfare newspaper chain in China, let out an anti-Russian blast. Thundered Pan: "According to the Sino-Soviet Treaty of 1945, China and Russia should respect each other's sovereignty and territory. But Russia hasn't kept her word...
...moving schools and universities from the coast to the interior, away from the Japanese. But while Chen encouraged practical subjects (a country at war needs engineers), he cut down on history, economics and politics. His advice to students: study-quietly and make no trouble. Extracurricular activities disappeared, except for Chiang's San Min Chu I Youth Group, a movement for training the young in hsiao and cheng, and in such un-Chinese pastimes as swimming. The Education Ministry started a bureau to "guide the thoughts and control the actions" of students, abroad as well as at home. When criticized...