Word: chihli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists' veteran No. 1 negotiator; on his right was General Chang Chun, the Government's progressive-minded governor of Szechwan. There was a variation in this setup during the conference on military reorganization. Then Marshall sat only as adviser. General Chou spoke for the Communists; General Chang Chih-chung, onetime aide-de-camp to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, carried on for the Government...
...Chungking office, floodlights flanked a wooden desk. One after another, in businesslike fashion, three soldiers sat down at the desk and signed a document. The three soldiers were U.S. General of the Army George C. Marshall, in blouse and pinks; Chinese Government General Chang Chih-chung, in dress uniform; Communist General Chou Enlai, in a sober blue business suit. The document, which might be a turning point in Chinese politics, was an agreement for fusion and reorganization of the Government and Communist Armies...
...knotty details of combining military forces were in the hands of Communist General Chou En-lai and Government Generals Chang Chun and Chang Chih-chung. Last week they called again for counsel on U.S. Special Envoy George C. Marshall, whose astute mediation had played a key part in the truce agreement...
...national anniversary they were seated around a banqueting table in Chungking. Guest of honor was Mao Tse-tung, the Communist leader from Yenan, a man with destiny written in his strong face. Opposite him sat one of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's chief negotiators, shrewd General Chang Chih-chung. For 45 seesawing days the two men, backed by their aides, had pitted plan against plan to heal the breach between Communist China and Nationalist China. Now the time had arrived to give the outcome to China and the world...
...uniquely distinguished representatives of China's culture, both U.S.-edu-cated, were present at the dedication. Ex-officio director of China House, as director of the China Institute, is Dr. Meng Chih, 44, onetime student at North Carolina's Davidson College and a Columbia A.M. An astute and affable patriot and educator, Dr. Meng is a descendant of China's great philosopher of democracy. Mencius (372-289 [?] B.C.). As honorary president of China Institute, the speech of acceptance at the dedication was made by famed Dr. H. H. Kung (A.B. Oberlin; A.M. Yale), Vice Premier and Finance...