Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The cheers could be heard around the world. Franklin Roosevelt's victory was good news in London, in Moscow, in Paris, in Chungking. It was good news in many a humbler foreign village which the President, geography-lover though he is, had never heard of.
China's Puzzles. And there was the further complication of Washington's peripatetic global emissaries whose powers, purposes and accreditation were often more baffling than any Chinese puzzle. There was Vice President Henry Wallace. He cocked a nutritional eye at China's permanently underfed people, bent an...
In Chungking, T. V. Soong, Chiang Kai-shek's brother-in-law and Foreign Minister, issued a written statement: "The recall of General Stilwell was entirely a matter of personality. . . ."
Nobody ever urged the Chinese Communists to come to terms with Chungking.
Stripped to the bare facts, that situation was that Chungking, a dictatorship ruling high-handedly in order to safeguard the last vestiges of democratic principles in China, was engaged in an undeclared civil war with Yenan, a dictatorship whose purpose was the spread of totalitarian Communism in China. At the...