Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chungking really got it last week. In one 24-hour period, there were 22 hours of alarm. In one three-day stretch, there were 50 hours. The Japanese came over seven days in a row.
The gentlemen from Japan were not out to ruin property: they were out to break spirit. Most of the time the attackers sent only small squadrons, sometimes only three planes in a wave. But this was enough to keep Chungking under alarm, and keeping 250,000 people in dugouts and...
But Welles had little time to look toward such far horizons last week. He was busy. He denounced the Vichy Government for giving up territory unctuously to the Japanese but defending it bloodily against the British. He repudiated a suggestion by provincial-minded Isolationist Senator D. Worth Clark of Idaho...
Last week the Chungking press reported clashes between Chinese Communist units and Government troops in three North China Provinces. Though the clashes probably foretold no civil war, they marked the fact that relations of Government and Communists were no better than they were during January of this year, when bitter...
"He handed me over to his Chinese muscle-men-picked for their great size and strength-and told me that I must confess that night. . . . The strong-arm men removed me to the torture room, and the inquisition-which was to last all night-began. First I was beaten repeatedly...