Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was followed by a really staggering warning from Anglophobe Dr. Sun Fo, President of Chungking's Legislative Yuan and son of China's George Washington, Sun Yatsen. Said Dr. Sun: "If the United States and Britain intend to allow Japan free rein in the Far East while...
>Going to Moscow was tweedy, handsome Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr, 59, Ambassador to China since 1938. An aristocratic Scotsman and career diplomat, Sir Archibald became noted among the Chinese for his personal and official friendliness. He was instrumental in selling the idea of China's thousands of...
The Chinese press, with too-human jubilation, rose to the occasion, helped a good story along. It boasted at first of 52,000 Japanese casualties. Later the military spokesman pared this to 30,000 casualties. At the front, the tough men of battle told correspondents they had nicked the enemy...
Last week, from Chungking, Chinese reported sallies of their forces into the suburbs of Canton and Nanchang, long held by the Japanese. These were not harbingers of a final Chinese victory drive. But they were evidences that the Chinese Army was flexing its muscles and preparing for the day.
On Dec. 23 the Japanese bombed Rangoon, devastated the neighborhood of his hotel. He moved to another. On Christmas the Japanese razed that hotel with incendiaries. Finally cadging a ride by plane to Lashio and another to Kunming, much-traveled Correspondent MacDonald arrived in China, wrote his dispatch, then proceeded...