Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already made and demands impending gave some idea. Demands were not confined to Europe. Korea (see FOREIGN NEWS) was at the head of the line with a request for $75 to $100 million. The State Department was getting ready to reverse its policy in China, take the Government of Chiang Kai-shek back into its good graces. China was expected to ask for $1 billion. Mexico's President Alemán had won from Harry Truman a promise of help which was now figured to run to $100 million. The cost of implementing the Truman Doctrine in the next...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek knew that literacy was a military weapon for an army that needed leaders. In 1940, near bombed-out Chungking, the National College for Rural Reconstruction was founded, with Yen as president...
...forced back by the Japanese, Chiang gave old friend Chang the job of getting remote Szechwan province under control, in preparation for moving the capital to Chungking. He made Chang, himself a Szechwanese, the governor. But the close-knit Szechwan old guard refused to accept Chang. Thereupon the Generalissimo assumed the title of governor himself, worked Chang in as special assistant, and in 1940 slipped out from under, leaving Chang in charge...
...Statisticians Out. Because of Chang's role of Nanking moderate, the West read last week's news from China with satisfaction. The moderates, with the non-Kuomintang liberals, seemed to have a solid majority in the new State Council, and Chiang seemed to be on their side...
There were other auguries of more democracy; the Kuomintang announced dissolution of the party's own secret police-the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics. (Some tough non-statisticians would be looking for new jobs.) This week Chiang Kai-shek agreed to delete a sentence in the new Organic Law which would have made him-as President-responsible only to the Kuomintang...