Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was tied down in Chungking, so he asked Madame Chiang to be his good-will envoy extraordinary to Manchuria. It was the first big job she had undertaken on her own in three years. At Changchun, the Manchurian capital, it was 14° below zero and...
In China, where he began a four-year stint in 1938, he won friends and influenced people for Britain at a time when his country's stock was painfully low. His hilltop home overlooking Chungking was a haven for Chinese politicians and intellectuals who wanted good books and elegant...
The marines have so thoroughly failed to get the word that many of them did not know of General Marshall's mission to Chungking until the Kuomintang-Communist truce was announced (see FOREIGN NEWS). Then they hastily concluded that this meant they could go home right away.
Next morning the truce was drafted. From the rostrum of the opening session of the Political Consultation Conference, the Generalissimo proclaimed the news amid a thunder of applause. Cried Chungking's Ta Kung Pao: "General Marshall . . . has achieved merit of global proportions. . . ."
¶ To Ulan Bator Khoto, capital of Soviet-dominated Outer Mongolia, went Chungking's formal recognition of Outer Mongolia's "independence." By giving up all claim to what had once been her frontier province, China paid the price asked last August in the negotiation of the Sino-Russian...