Word: chihli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those brave days, Bao Dai (meaning: The Great Protection) was hereditary emperor of the Annamites in French Indo-China. But in August of 1945 he ran into a bird too big for him-Communist Ho Chih-minh. Elected President of the new Viet Nam Republic, Ho Chih-minh arranged for Bao Dai's prompt abdication, kept him prisoner for some months and then packed him off to China. Since then, the Great Protection has spent his time roaring about Hong Kong on a motorcycle and awaiting a "summons from the Annamite people...
...Nanking, Chinese General Chang Chih-chung addressed an open letter to Achmadjahm: "What is the meaning of your withdrawal? ... Is it the abrogation of our Peace Agreement? Is another armed rebellion being hatched? ... If you have no intention against peace you will return to Tihua and reopen negotiations with the Government...
...story really softens one's heart," wrote one susceptible newsman as Yen's colleagues began circulating a petition to Mme. Chiang. But it was all hopeless. The deadline remained unchanged. Said Fang Chih, Kuomintang leader: "I think no patriotic man or woman wants to embrace each other under soft lights. . . . Dancing girls could be trained to acquire useful talents in reconstructing the country and wiping out bandits...
Vision Across the Centuries. Chen Li-fu is not much in the news these days. It is not up to him to win the civil war, block the inflation or get reconstruction going. He has set himself the less immediate but greater task of a chih-k'o, or marriage broker, between two great civilizations-one based on the culture of Confucius, the other on the technology of the West. His activities toward this end take two very different forms: he writes erudite books on social philosophy and he operates a political machine that extends from Chiang Kai-shek...
...same everywhere that there has been conflict between French and Viet Minh. The town of Haï-duong, near Hanoi, was for a time Ho Chih-minh's headquarters and was recently taken by the French. It is the most utterly destroyed place since Lidice. Perhaps it is worse. Every building was burned or wrecked before the Viet Minh left. A favorite method is taking a pickax and weakening around the window frames of brick walls until they collapse...