Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chiang Kai-shek was on the defensive. Harbin and Tsitsihar had fallen last week to the Reds. At a Chungking tea party the Generalissimo decided to postpone calling the National Assembly because the Communists refused to participate. Some of Chiang's advisers feared that time was now on the side of the Communists; because hungry, strife-torn China might blame the Government for failure to restore the peace the Reds had broken...
Like the best of friends, Mme. Chiang Kai-shek and Mme. Chou En-lai-wife of Communist China's No. 1 negotiator-joined last week at Chungking's windy Paishihyi airfield to greet General George C. Marshall and his handsome, hazel-eyed wife, Katherine. Soldier-Diplomat Marshall, after a nightlong Peiping study of Manchuria's erupting war, was less impressed by tea-drinking at the top levels than by bullets in the boondocks...
According to Yenan, the Communists were sending back to Government lines the bodies of Government troops in coffins "as an expression of a sincere desire for peace and unity." This week Generalissimo Chiang made another gesture of compromise; he invited General Chou and other leaders to tea and a discussion of their differences...
...moment U.S. officers appeared, Chinese officials took down Soviet-style portraits of Lenin and Sun Yatsen, substituted Truman and Attlee. They did not remove the posters of Stalin and Chiang...
...good friend, in gratitude," from Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kaishek...