Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek again coordinated psychological warfare with military operations. As his armies neared victory at Chefoo, the Gissimo abruptly issued a cease-fire order and renewed his invitation to Chinese Communists to participate in the long-postponed meeting this week of China's National Assembly. Like his eight-point peace offer after the fall of Kalgan, it was a gesture from strength...
...surprised when the Communists rejected the truce. Chiang Kaishek, more than ever convinced by recent victories that he can defeat the Communists in the field, did not expect a Red yes to his proposal. He did hope that his national unity gesture would lure some of the minuscule parties of the wavering Democratic League into the Assembly sessions, thus reduce the appearance of one-party rule in China...
...never learned to speak Chinese (or even pronounce proper names), yet he was the only man who dared criticize Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to his face. For 44 years he had been immersed in Chinese affairs, first as a correspondent and then as confidant, adviser and sometimes as policymaker. In March, when U.S. Navy doctors in Honolulu told him he could not survive a lung and stomach cancer aggravated by long internment in a Japanese prison camp, his only wish was to die in China...
...China Mail because its editor insisted on having one teetotaling reporter. He covered the 1911 revolution, and then, inspired by the events he had witnessed, became Dr. Sun Yat-sen's adviser. In the early '30s Donald joined the Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Ka-shek, and in 1936 helped negotiate Chiang's release in the Sian kidnaping incident...
...Generalissimo was happy, it was not because peace was in sight, but rather because the recent success of his armies has convinced many doubters that China can be unified by military means-as Chiang the Soldier had argued. In Nanking, both generals and politicians-who have not always agreed in the past-were talking of being able to clear main rail lines south of the Great Wall within three months. The generals had told Chiang they could take Harbin at any time...