Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bains. No politics connected with his trip, he said. It was just a three-month visit as "a private citizen," chiefly "to see my children [Laurette, 21, Mary Jane, 19, Katherine, 18, all going to school in the U.S.] and old friends," and, "of course,"his sister, Mme. Chiang Kaishek...
...Future, a discharged army sergeant, a simple, decent young engineer, comes to Shanghai from Tokyo, where a buddy had already given him a discreet but troubling shot of Communist propaganda. In a rush of guilt, he concludes that the U.S. is on the wrong side, that the enemies of Chiang Kai-shek ("It is not so important whether we are Communists or not") are the hope of China. He flirts with the idea of helping them, but he is too confused to make up his mind. Even his adventures with a refugee Russian girl and with his boss...
This article informed us that "Chiang has received more than three billion dollars from the U.S., much of it in actual war material. Still his armies have melted before Mao's Communists. The reason is obvious incompetent leadership, corruption, and lack of popular support." I suggest that the moral forces that overcame Chiang were very real indeed; but methinks these "moral forces" have taken up more than a little space on the Kremlin-to-China trade route...
Schwartz sketched the background of the Chinese Communist movement and paralleled the political techniques of Communist leader Mao Tze Tung to those of Lenin. Communism's chief attraction to the Chinese, he said, is its action and melodramatic methods as compared to the inefficient bumbling of Chiang Kai Shek's Kuomintang government...
Shanghai's Garrison Commander Chen Ta-ching spoke bravely of making Shanghai "a second Stalingrad." Quietly and unannounced, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek had briefly visited Shanghai, defiantly proclaimed his hope of "final victory" in three years. A long-gowned shopkeeper, standing in his deserted tobacco shop, read the Gimo's words, said sadly: "Mo-liao yi pao [his last salvo...