Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing surprising about it. Everyone who understands the situation in China and the Far East has seen the move coming for more than two years. The people who cry now that the U. S. is responsible exhibit a complete failure to study the lesson which must be learned from Chiang Kai-Shek's costly fiasco...
Since the end of the war, Chiang has received more than $3,000,000,000 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...
Only when Americans realize why Chiang lost will they be able to-take advantage of these failures. More guns than he could use did not win him the essential support. The Chinese have rejected his reactionary government of warlords and bankers. They have rejected the United States for supporting...
...their center in the Yangtze buckled and crashed around them, Nationalist leaders put aside their differences. At Hangchow, retired President Chiang Kai-shek met in urgent conference with Acting President Li Tsung...
...more was obviously needed for that Herculean task than the Gimo's reserve. Li also wanted the treasure to pay Nationalist troops along the Yangtze in hard cash, thus boost their morale. To Fenghua went old Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, governor of Shansi province, to plead with Chiang for return of the funds...