Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shy, bespectacled Colin MacDonald, the London Times's Far Eastern Correspondent, was in Hong Kong en route to Chungking when war broke out. Hong Kong-Chungking air service was interrupted.
The greatest compliment the Chungking conference could be given-since it recognized the threat of joint Allied action in southeast Asia-was paid by the Japanese. They started a new offensive in central China, aimed at much-aimed-at Changsha. The Jap, despite the only proven use of gas in...
Both sides were engaged in a "war of nerves" last week. With Winston Churchill talking in Washington, Anthony Eden talking in Moscow and Franklin Roosevelt hinting of ominous U.S. Navy movements (see p. 11), the Allies could lay claim to their own major nerve strategies. Responsively, the Rome radio reported...
Last week Chinese wondered where their new Foreign Minister would establish himself-in Washington or Chungking. Quipped one of his aides: "He'll probably set up office in an airplane."
These two baby giant pandas (escorted by Zoologist John Tee-Van,) arrived safely in San Francisco last week after a hazardous journey by plane from Chungking to Manila, by ship from Manila to Hawaii, through the sub marine-infested Pacific in the first convoy to reach the West Coast since...