Word: chungkingers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tired Chungking shook off winter's grey chill, admired the flowering plum and magnolia trees, found comfort in the promise of spring. In her eighth springtime of war, China was bearing an accumulated burden of inflation, hunger, disease, political disunity and military retreat. But somehow the nation was still...
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...
¶ In Shanghai the Japs took over the light and power plant owned by American & Foreign Power Co., Inc. Recently the United Press in Chungking reported a rumor that the Japs now plan to dismantle the $20 million plant and haul it away to their stronghold in Manchuria.
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...