Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despot, dictator, lunatic, gangster-with these words Yenan last week resumed its political critique of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, after almost a year of vain negotiations between Chungking and the Chinese Communists. The words fell thick and fast.
Through an unnamed correspondent of their official news agency in Chungking, the Chinese Communists gave their answer to the Generalissimo's plea for unity and promise of constitutional government (TIME, March 12). They declared: the all-party national assembly, which Chiang proposed, would be a "congress of slaves" unless...
Invitations went last week to three countries-Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia-which scurried under the wire by March 1, the deadline for war declarations set at Yalta. Syria and Lebanon also beat the deadline, but were not invited (they are still juridically French mandates). Korea's Provisional Government in...
China took another momentous step toward democracy. In Chungking, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek opened the first session of the Preparatory Commission for Inauguration of Constitutional Government. He announced:
A question that has worried mission-minded churchmen since Pearl Harbor was partially answered last week. Had the roots of Christianity been planted deep enough in Japan to withstand the erosion of war? Probably not-according to a 28-year-old Korean theological student, who had been drafted into the...