Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One day last week, in Manhattan's modernistic Memorial Hospital, Harry Hopkins died. General George Marshall cabled from Chungking: "He rendered a service to his country which will never even vaguely be appreciated."
Another member of the family, comely, slender Mme. Mao Tse-tung, was planning to leave Yenan for dental treatment in Chungking. Asked if she would see Mme. Chiang Kaishek, Mme. Mao smiled and said: "I hope so." She had last been in Nationalist China eight years ago, when she was...
In the small hours before dawn, 5,000 students gathered for a political parade through Chungking. They were dressed in the motley of China's youth-family hand-me-downs, G.I. castoffs, ragged patches. Many had walked as much as 20 miles to the city. A university dean accompanied...
Exuberantly, waving placards, urged on by cheerleaders, the students snaked through Chungking's winding main street. No one stopped them, no one dispersed them. They blocked all traffic, engulfed even the coolie coal-and-water bearers, whose makeway cries of "Hai! Hai!" were lost in the din of shouting...
Democracy at Work. The students enlivened an otherwise constructive political week in Chungking. The Political Consultation Conference made steady, if unspectacular, progress.