Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At his Friday press conference, Franklin Roosevelt did not chain-smoke, as usual; in fact, he did not smoke at all. His voice had a hoarse, stopped-up quality, indicating a head cold. Well knowing the acute national interest in Mr. Roosevelt's health, the White House promptly announced...
Hiding by day, riding by night, the Japanese last week ground out new and ominous gains in their China offensive-the greatest land campaign ever fought by the men from the little island empire. Although the nearest battlefield was almost 350 miles from Chungking, the atmosphere in the capital was...
Even if the Japanese should push westward only to Kweiyang, 300 miles from Paoching, they would sever the main highways by which the Chinese and their allies had hoped to move war supplies into China from the new Ledo-Burma Road, through Kunming to Chungking. Across the plateau to the...
In Chungking Chinese and foreigners alike felt their deep gloom give way to optimism. Cabled TIME's Theodore H. White: "Criticism by the P.P.C. passes any in intensity and disapproval. There's an increasing desire for unity and an unbudging reluctance to concede an inch on either side...
In the flood of pent-up Chinese criticism loosed by the recent relaxation of Government censorship, one newspaper and its editor have been outstanding. The newspaper is China's leading independent, Chungking's Ta Rung Pao. Its brilliant, self-educated editor is slight, bespectacled Wang Yun-sheng. Recent...