Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most unhappy period in the life of a great country." The record, reviewing U.S. relations with China back to 1844, prefaced by a 15-page lawyer's brief by Acheson, and displaying some studied flourishes of erudition, added up to a savage indictment of China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his regime. Acheson summarized...
...days Chiang obviously enjoyed himself at official tea parties. Then he stood up before a meeting of Kuomintang leaders, and went straight to the heart of the matter. Said...
...Chiang's return engendered optimism in Canton. Said a high government official: "We were like sheep without a shepherd-now our leader has returned...
...Shepherd Chiang had laid the basis for new confidence a week ago by flying to Baguio, summer capital of the Philippines. There he conferred with Philippine President Elpidio Quirino on preparation for an anti-Communist pact which other Asiatic countries would be invited to join...
...rosy glow which had suffused Canton officialdom after this and Chiang's visit was immediately overcast by news from the north. Communist armies, quiet for more than two months, had begun to roll southward again. From Peiping, the Red radio announced that General Lin Piao, conqueror of Manchuria, was advancing into Hunan province on two fronts, apparently driving for the Nationalist strongpoint at Changsha. Four of Lin's divisions captured the Yangtze port of Ichang, 200 miles north of Changsha. In Shensi province, the Nationalist defenders abandoned Paochi, the western terminus of the Lunghai railroad, but counterattacked east...