Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sent a succession of special envoys, including General George C. Marshall, to mediate between Chiang and Mao Tse-tung. U.S. mediation merely succeeded in holding up Chiang's forces for nine months in 1945-46 while the Reds...
...mutineers read Chiang's private diary; there, it appeared, Chiang showed as much determination to fight Japan as they had themselves. A consultation took place among the captors. Communist General Chou En-lai was invited over from the Red positions nearby. His instructions from Moscow: Chiang was to be returned to Nanking...
Chinese respected the Gimo's indomitable will, his stubborn national pride, but they had a sharp sense, that he-and they -had failed. One measure of that failure, some of them felt, was the performance of Chiang's own Whampoa Academy generals. Said one Chinese bitterly last week: "They are old and tired; in 20 years they have passed from the sunrise to the sunset." Some had turned carpetbagger. In one instance, soldiers defending Mukden watched a planeload of payday currency signed over to an army general and flown back to his bank in Shanghai. The government...
...secretaries the clue for the answer. Lunch was Western style when foreign guests were present, Chinese style for his countrymen. He was usually abed by 10 p.m. and he was sleeping soundly, he said. The only insomnia he could remember recently was last March, when the surprise election of General Li Tsung-jen to the vice presidency had made him somewhat sleepless. He had cured that by violating one of his Methodist principles: he had downed a little bit of whiskey...
Edward Johnson, harassed general manager of the Metropolitan Opera Co., remembering what happened at last year's opening night (those newspaper pictures of diamond-encrusted dowagers with feet on table), had hopes that things would go better this year. In a pleading letter to editors, Johnson noted that last year reporters and photographers had emphasized "undignified incidents and poses." It was particularly distressing because "neither the episodes nor the individuals involved represented the ideals of the Metropolitan nor the artistic purpose it seeks to serve...