Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as if to underscore U.S. sincerity, the President prepared to send a top-notch military mission, headed by Brigadier-General John Magruder, to Chungking. A onetime military attaché in Peking, clearheaded, athletic General Magruder is well known in China.
Chungking withstood its 33rd bombing of the 1941 season last week. Of 135 Japanese planes that swarmed over Szechwan Province, 27 blasted the capital. Chinese huddling stoically in their shelters could tell by the way the earth shook that this raid, like those of the last few weeks, was as...
Last week China was in the front of the anti-Axis fight. Over the Burma Road moved supplies from her western allies. A U.S. military mission was going to Chungking. Last week Chinese land forces launched an offensive that carried them to the gates of Nanchang and Foochow, the latter...
Having negotiated - from Lashio, Burma, to Kunming, China - 726 agonized miles of the world's most deadly, contorted, breath-taking and important highway, Arnstein told newshawks at Chungking: "It's a good road, and its capacity, with efficient operation, is practically unlimited. It is possible that in the...
But, while all this made Chiang Kai-shek beamish with joy, Dan Arnstein's mission was scarcely a flawless triumph. Knowing little, caring nothing about protocol and the sanctity of face in the Orient, at Chungking receptions the hardhitting ex-cabby and his blunt, breezy manner had Occidental diplomats...