Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week left the heat and din of Nanking for breezeswept Kuling, the mountain resort which used to be China's prewar summer capital. There he shed his uniform for a comfortable gown and strolled about the clean-swept, maple-shaded streets. Nevertheless, the political temperature continued to rise and the Government's discomfiture increased...
Last week Mme. Sun Yatsen, elder sister of Madame Chiang, broke a long silence on politics with a public statement that advanced the possibility of hellzapoppin China. Said she: "In recent years . . . I have avoided political controversy . . . [but] today we are threatened by a civil war into which the reactionaries hope to draw America, thus involving the whole world. . . . I feel it is necessary to speak. . . . The present crisis is not a question of who wins-the Kuomintang or the Communists. It is a question of the Chinese people. . . . The time of the Kuomintang tutelage is over. . . . A coalition government...
Angel's Bed. The week's mounting tension augured ill for General George C. Marshall's mission of peace. When he went to Kuling for a short visit with Chiang he saw on Kuling's main street a large poster-portrait of himself, subscribed: "Welcome General Marshall, Most Honored Angel of Peace." That night in Chiang's guest cottage, General Marshall slept in a bed seven feet long and five feet wide. The Kuling correspondent of Ta Rung Pao, Shanghai's independent newspaper, reported this fact to his readers, then asked...
Plan for the Future. After the war Dr. Stuart planned to set Yenching going again; then he would retire, to end his days in China. But last month General Marshall's man-to-man attempts to get Chiang and Chou En-lai to continue talking peace stalled. He called in Dr. Stuart, asked him to speak to the Nationalist leader. In a few days, Old China Hand Stuart helped Westerner Marshall achieve the truce he sought. And he had given Marshall an idea...
LaGuardia himself had sent a bluntly pleading cable to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek ("it might not be couched in diplomatic language, but I tried to make it so he would understand") demanding "personal and prompt" action about CNRRA. "[UNRRA's] purpose," cabled the Little Flower, "is to help the rehabilitation of China and not the financial rehabilitation of warehouses...