Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For the moment, at least, China was spared the ultimate in disaster. The Japanese drive northwest into the desolate province of Kweichow last week faltered, then ebbed back into neighboring Kwangsi. Either the enemy's swift advance had outrun its supply, or China had somehow found new strength to...
Kweiyang ordered evacuation of all nonessential workers; all U.S. and British citizens were ordered to leave Kweichow province; thousands of misery-stricken refugees were pouring out of Kweichow into the Szechwan bastion beyond Chungking.
Dead-End Road. If Kweiyang were to go as nine other U.S. bases had gone, the Japs would be in a position to: 1) advance northward along the Burma Road toward Chungking itself; 2) turn southwest toward Kunming or northwest to Pichieh and cut the best alternate road over which...
The Japanese were 310 miles from Chungking (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). In China's darkest hour Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek girded his Government for the trial. He appointed his able, U.S.educated brother-in-law, Foreign Minister T. V. Soong, the Executive Yuan's Acting President. He relieved his brother...
Emily's latest book is not only a "partial autobiography," but also a jampacked grabbag of the personalities and private lives of nearly everyone she met in China, from Asiatic prostitutes to European taipans (rich merchants). She has relatively little to say about Chinese politics ("I have not sold...