Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chiang Kaishek, China's Man of Eight Years, the events of 1945 came as a reward for unwavering courage and patience. Of all the Allies, China had endured the most. But the long-awaited, almost-despaired-of peace found Chiang embroiled in something close to civil war. He might well be the Man of 1946, or of some later year...
Their professors petitioned Chiang Kaishek and Mao Tse-tung to settle the domestic quarrel. Last month, in defiance of an official ban, the students paraded in the streets. Soldiers fired rifle volleys in the air to disperse them. The students called a strike. Uniformed rowdies threw hand grenades that killed three students and one professor...
...official record the new, clear policy which Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, U.S. commander in China, has wanted, and which Special Envoy George Marshall had helped frame (TIME, Dec. 10). Two major points were made even more explicit: 1) U.S. forces will remain in China to help Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government take over control of North China and Manchuria from the Japanese-but not to intervene in China's internal strife; 2) after an end of the civil war, unification should be arranged by a national conference of all major Chinese political elements. Implied, but none...
...between Japan and China. "A limited war was always our intention," he explained. "Throughout the war on both sides there were always those who hoped to be able to end the war by negotiated peace." Japan had indeed sought persistently to end the "China incident" by negotiations with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, or somebody. The Generalissimo, even in direst straits, refused to listen; the other somebodies were of no avail...
Presumably it was such writing that had made him "unacceptable" to Chiang's Government. Editor Hibbs passed the protest along to Harry Truman, Jimmy Byrnes, General Eisenhower, the press. At Chungking, officials told the A.P. that there was no "final decision" to bar Snow. But the record there already showed other unacceptables: the New York Post's Darrell Berrigan, Newsweek's Harold Isaacs were barred last. summer. The New York Times counted nine unwanted, including Vincent Sheean, the Times's Brooks Atkinson, the Chicago Daily News's Leland Stowe...