Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A tall man with a weathered, homely face, in which there was the visible touch of greatness, stepped briskly down the ramp of the plane from China. Three months, almost to the hour, after he had left for Chungking, U.S. Special Envoy George Catlett Marshall was back in Washington. He...
In Chungking the Chinese Government signed a new treaty with France. The weakened Fourth Republic gave up its old extraterritoriality rights in China. It also agreed to special privileges for China in French Indo-China-a free port at Haiphong and railway rights from the Indo-China coast to the...
In a Chungking office, floodlights flanked a wooden desk. One after another, in businesslike fashion, three soldiers sat down at the desk and signed a document. The three soldiers were U.S. General of the Army George C. Marshall, in blouse and pinks; Chinese Government General Chang Chih-chung, in dress...
By last August's treaty between Chungking and Moscow, Russia acquired a 30-year partnership in the main Manchurian railways, a joint naval base at Port Arthur and a free port at Dairen. Last week the Russians were said to be asking for a share in operating Manchurian mines...
For Chungking and all China there was double reason to celebrate. In the cliffside capital, the nation's main political groups had successfully ended a historic conference. After nearly 20 years of civil strife, the way was open at last for peaceful cooperation within a common frame of government...