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...Last Farewell To Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Idi Amin, Dr. Atkins and Mr. Rogers, Carney, Cash, Kazan and Kate...
...MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK...
...Enduring Woman Madame Chiang Kai-shek [EULOGY, Nov. 3], wife of China's Nationalist leader, made use of her fluent English in a wartime address to the U.S. Congress in which she appealed for aid for her country, which was fighting Japanese invaders. TIME described that speech in a March 1, 1943, report...
...Senators watched in curious silence as Madame Chiang walked down the aisle of the Senate Chamber. They saw a still face with big dark eyes. They saw a slim, straight figure in a black Chinese gown, with here a tiny splash of jade, there a black sequin's understated sparkle. Madame Chiang stepped to the rostrum ... shot a smile at the Senators, and then, after apologizing for not having a set speech, knocked their silvery blocks off ... When she finished, tough guys were melted. 'Goddam it,' said one grizzled Congressman ... Much-moved listeners probably did not stop to analyze what...
...millions of Chinese, the Long March is a seminal historic event. In 1934, the more-than-80,000-strong Red Army, having been routed by Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists, retreated from its base in southeast China on a harrowing yearlong slog that killed 9 out of 10 soldiers?but ultimately, by saving the core cadre to fight another day, set the stage for the Communists' victory, launched a nation and turned a little-known guerilla fighter named Mao Zedong into a hero...