Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toward the Front. He flew northward 275 miles to Sian. In the drizzling rain at the airport he was met by the most important person in North China, Major General Hu Tsung-nan. It is the crucial job of stocky, 42-year-old General Hu, with China's finest...
Then the heavy program began. Willkie was driven through Chungking's crowded, cheering streets. He visited a meeting of the Chinese Cabinet, which was tussling with the inflation problem. He talked with China's Chief of Staff General Ho Ying-chin. He talked with the Gissimo through the...
It was obvious that the Chinese, like the Russians, enjoyed Wendell Willkie. And he would obviously be a great warmer of the lukewarm Sino-Allied relations -if he had brought with him enough assurances of material help. Just what he had brought was a military secret. But in Chungking, as...
"I have learned that the ordinary citizen, from Cairo to Moscow to Chungking, is a lover of liberty and wants action-action now. He is ahead of his leaders, this plain citizen of Africa, or Europe, or Asia, or America. It annoys him that much of the might of the...
*Powerful You Foundation in Chungking. Powerful You Foundation is the honorary name given to Wendell Willkie by the Chinese.