Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snug atmosphere of Chiang Kaishek's sitting room-among the potted plants, old scrolls, Sung urns and leather chairs-the 20-year single-party monopoly of the Kuomintang (National People's Party) was, nominally, coming to an end. The Generalissimo ran his eye over the hand-charactered document. "Hao hao!" he exclaimed, "let us sign and have this copy as a souvenir." Across the agreement for a coalition government, the spokesman for the Young China Party, the Democratic Socialists, and the nonparty independents added their brushstroke signatures to Chiang's own Kuomintang endorsement...
...Thus to the world's notice last week came a Chinese of whom the world would doubtless hear more: General Chang Chun (58 but looking younger), Governor of rich Szechwan (Chungking's province), leader of Nanking's moderate Political Science Group, friend of Chiang Kai-shek since they went to military school together in Japan...
General Chang had often stood up for Generalissimo Chiang. In 1931, as mayor of Shanghai, Chang arrested militant student leaders on orders from Chiang. Five thousand fellow students thereupon invaded the municipal offices, captured Chang, and made him stand up (literally) for a day and a night, listening to speeches denouncing him and Chiang Kaishek. Released, Chang left the municipal building in an ambulance...
...gowned merchant, Fan Kuang-kua, and his apple-cheeked wife have a counter full of cigarets, wooden combs, runty potatoes, homespun towels and dust-cloths. Yes, says Fan, the Communists had posted many signs and slogans along this very street. Yes, they had been anti-American-they had said Chiang Kai-shek was trying to sell China to the U.S. What does Fan believe? "I understand little of this," Fan says. "I am just lao pai hsing...
More than a few A.G.R.S. men fell into situations which savored of Terry and the Pirates. Communist detachments held some of them prisoner, in the belief that they were spies for Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist forces. One A.G.R.S. team crossed into Indo-China and found a blonde French woman leading a band of Vietnamese guerrillas. A C-47 crew, which crashed in the Himalayan hills, walked back 350 miles through bandit country. For fear of dysentery they lived entirely on boiled eggs until natives talked them into a meal of fried bees (which tasted like a cross between...