Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...March 21, 1943, Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell, Commander of the China-Burma-India Theater, Chief of Staff to Chiang Kaishek, wrote to his wife in Carmel, Calif. In the letter he enclosed the following verse...
Stilwell died a year and a half ago. Theodore H. White, a former TIME correspondent in Chungking, has assembled "Stilwell's Story" from the general's fascinatingly revealing diary, his letters to Mrs. Stilwell and random papers. The collection, edited and liberally annotated by White (who shares Stilwell's hatred of the Chinese government and his warm regard for the Chinese Communists), appeared this week in the current issue of the Ladies' Home Journal. As if in answer, Major General Claire L. Chennault, who commanded the Fourteenth Air Force at Kunming under Stilwell, is writing...
...American to operate effectively as Chiang Kai-shek's Chief of Staff would have been a delicate operation at best. Stilwell in his diary quotes George Marshall as telling him, "Get the various factions together and grab command and in general give 'em the works." Whether Marshall said that or not, that is the way Stilwell went about his task...
Three days after his first arrival in Chungking, this was Stilwell's attitude toward his superior, Chiang Kaishek: "[Dinner at Chiang's] turned out to be a session of amateur tactics by Chiang Kaishek, backed up by a stooge staff general. Chiang Kai-shek gave me a long lecture on the situation and picked on Mandalay as the danger point. 'If the British run away, the Japs will get to Mandalay and crucify us.' I showed him the solution, but [the] stooge jumped in and made a long harangue about how right Chiang Kai-shek...
...next man was Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, who got along fine...