Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retreating Chinese Communists, leaving behind their legendary capital, Yenan, filtered northward to other centers of Red strength. Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist troops, commanded by stocky, dependable General Hu Tsung-nan, marched in, took down the huge poster of Communist Chieftain Mao Tse-tung flapping by the south gate, raised the twelve-rayed sun flag of the Government. After ten years, Yenan ("Permanent Peace") had fallen...
...every country in the world. Many a paragraph in it clawed crabwise before the winds of political expediency. It left a lot of questions unanswered (example: Why was it right for the U.S. to fight Communists' efforts to enter the Greek Government when it had lately been urging Chiang Kai-shek to take Communists into the Chinese Government?). Nevertheless, the total purport of the message was clear to the world: the U.S., realizing (however dimly and belatedly) that it was engaged in a deadly struggle with Communism (see below), had begun a positive effort to organize a non-Communist...
...Steps. Last week, at Powell's old desk, under the gaudy lithographs of Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kaishek, son John William Powell, 27, took over the title of editor & publisher of the China Weekly Review. He had been running the paper since the end of the war. Shanghai-born Bill Powell worked with 0WI during the war, tossing leaflets out of Army bombers over occupied Hong Kong and Canton. When he got back to the Review he found most of its fine library stolen, the wiring and switches ripped from the walls...
...Generalissimo quotes Confucius: "The people may be made to follow a course of action, but they must not be expected to understand." From this, Chiang derives a guiding maxim: "To know is difficult, to act is easy." As developed in the supporting text, this maxim envisions a knowledgeable elite (the Kuomintang) which will "know" and rule the unenlightened mass of the people, according to the ancient precepts of "harmony," "benevolence," "justice," and "love...
This implies a paternalistic (or authoritarian) society in which the only vital components are men and land. Says Chiang: "The economic duties of the Government are twofold: to satisfy the people's wants, and at the same time restrict them. The former involves positive support, the latter precautionary control. . . . The application of these principles in social, political and economic organization will result in correct systems and policies...