Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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As everywhere, the Chinese in Singapore were stoical under bombing. Some 1,000 were mobilized, given weapons and put under twelve leaders sent from Chungking. Truckloads of khaki-clad Chinese Communists rode to battle singing and saluting with clenched fists-a salute which on one occasion was answered by a...
As the reporters gathered in the bare room on Chungking hill, they chatted about the news, which they had already heard. Finally China's official spokesman, onetime Ambassador to Russia Dr. T. F. Chiang* (no kin), came in. Man-of-the-world, he showed no particular excitement as he...
F. W. Kendall, a refugee-wise consulting mining engineer from Pasadena, turned up in Chungking with a story of how Hong Kong's 1,500 American residents boldly tried to stem the Japanese onrush. His best story by far was that of Dr. S. C. Moulthan, who loaded a...
*Six-foot, 25-year-old Correspondent Jacoby, transferred from TIME'S Chungking bureau to Manila, two weeks before the Jap attack took a half day off to marry beauteous Annalee Whitmore, a Stanford fellow student who quit a Hollywood script-writing job to follow him to China.
But these tightening defenses were apparently not enough. Wrote the Chinese best-selling Philosopher Lin Yutang: "From every corner of the earth, from Batavia, Melbourne, Chungking and even from London itself rises the cry 'Singapore must be held.' The loss of Singapore will be the costliest mistake of...