Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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How seven Chungking patriots, despite the jeers of the Chinese press, organized a "Praying-for-the-Rains Dragon Corps" to save the crops of Szechwan Province. They shouted, beat gongs, organized public prayer, and, shortly, the heavens obliged.
Three generals were charged with the trucemaking: the Central Government's forceful, realistic Chang Chun, Governor of Szechwan Province and a leader of the progressive Political Science Group; the Communists' able, amiable Chou Enlai, veteran revolutionist and leader of Yenan's unity delegation in Chungking; and, sitting...
Chungking estimates that in the provinces occupied by Japan 30 million Chinese became opium, heroin, morphine or hashish addicts. Wherever the enemy advanced, he deliberately undid the patient, progressive work of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Opium Suppression Commission. This agency, aided by the indefatigable New Life Movement, had...
High Aims. After seven days as a witness in the Pearl Harbor inquiry, General of the Army George C. Marshall got off by plane to Chungking and his new mission: to bring an end to China's civil strife, to seek unity of her dissident factions. President Truman put...
Technically, Prisoner Okamura took orders from Chungking. But he still carried on from a comfortable stucco headquarters in Nanking, equipped with a formal garden and teahouse. He drove about in a black Buick sedan. He maintained direct radio contact with his forces in the field. Meticulously uniformed, his riding boots...