Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The appointment might also do much to halt the deterioration of Sino-Russian relations. No longer could it convincingly be charged that, as Acting. Premier, T. V. Soong was merely a figurehead in the Chungking Government. As Premier, his rank would enable him to negotiate on an equal footing with...
One Chinese official reported last week that Soong, fresh from his success as leader of China's delegation to the San Francisco conference, may stop off at Moscow, on his way back to Chungking, for a talk with Marshal Joseph Stalin. One probable subject of conversation: Chungking's...
Yenan's stiffening attitude toward Chungking had its counterpart in Moscow. Where two years ago there was relative aloofness between Russia and Chungking, there is now undisguised hostility. Moscow's War and the Working Class has tossed epithets like "Mihailovich" and "Quisling" at Kuomintang leaders. Izvestia has belittled...
Report from the Front. In 1943, Dr. John Lucian Savage, top U.S. Bureau of Reclamation civil engineer, who had gone to Chungking at Chinese invitation to study potential hydropower sites, asked to visit the Yangtze gorge. The bleak area was a fighting zone, but the Chinese Army guaranteed Savage safe...
The Biggest. On thin paper, the dam is the greatest waterpower project in the world, easily overshadowing the U.S.'s Boulder and Grand Coulee Dams, and Russia's Dnieprostroy. As projected, it will take six years and one billion dollars to build, will soar some 700 feet above...