Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tiny, sun-warmed island in Wusih's Lake Tai Hu, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek celebrated his 60th birthday with his wife and friends. He said it was the happiest day he had spent in ten years, unmarred even by the clatter and stink of the small steamboat originally chartered to pull the picnic barge to the island...
After Madame Chiang substituted oarsmen, the Gissimo joked that the only thing wrong with the party had been a Western device-that smelly, noisy engine...
...Yellow Sea in Manchuria, Lieut. General Tu Li-ming's Government armies were clearing out the peninsula south of captured Antung, preparing for the climactic drive on Harbin (see map). In that target city and in the now-isolated Red capital of Yenan, there was no observance of Chiang Kai-shek's natal...
...Communist Representative Chou En-lai came back to the Nanking negotiations after a month's sulk in Shanghai, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek flew to Formosa on what he said was a routine, long-scheduled inspection trip. Observers, recalling the North Kiangsu offensive launched during Chiang's summer absence at Kuling, decided to wait and see. They saw plenty...
...Mclntire observed F.D.R. almost daily throughout his presidency. No one close to Roosevelt, says Mclntire, ever thought of him as a cripple. His stupendous vitality and cheerfulness drowned out the clicking of his duralumin braces, overshadowed the wheelchair itself. (No one was more delighted than the President when Mme. Chiang Kai-shek so far forgot his condition as to beg him not to get up and see her to the door.) Mclntire believes that, but for the strain of the war years, which made it impossible for the President to follow his schedule of exercises, he might eventually have recovered...