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Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek again coordinated psychological warfare with military operations. As his armies neared victory at Chefoo, the Gissimo abruptly issued a cease-fire order and renewed his invitation to Chinese Communists to participate in the long-postponed meeting this week of China's National Assembly. Like his eight-point peace offer after the fall of Kalgan, it was a gesture from strength...
...Donald never "went Chinese." And in 1940, after Hitler attacked Britain, the speeches he wrote for the Generalissimo became more & more anti-German. One night the Gissimo sent back a speech with a message: "I'm not at war with Hitler." Donald returned it with a crisp note: "I am." After that, despite Mme. Chiang's intercession, Donald thought it best to leave China...
After Madame Chiang substituted oarsmen, the Gissimo joked that the only thing wrong with the party had been a Western device-that smelly, noisy engine...
...spite of his conviction that China "could be effectively unified by military victory, the Gissimo had, just before Kalgan's fall, acquiesced to Marshall's proposal for a ten-day truce that would have javed the Red city. Communist negotiator Chou En-lai turned down the truce and let Kalgan go, though its loss drove a wedge between Communist Yenan and the Reds' Manchurian rampart. Kalgan's capture was the climax and the symbol of six months of campaigning in which the Government army had been more successful than impartial observers had expected. In addition...
...Hsueh-liang, better known as the "Young Marshal." Son of fabulous "Old Marshal" Chang Tso-lin, who drank tiger blood and warlorded it over Manchuria until his assassination in 1928, the Young Marshal kidnaped Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in the fantastic Sian incident of 1936. Eventually he freed the Gissimo and surrendered himself, crying: "I, Hsueh-liang, am by nature rude and uncouth. . . . Blushing with shame, I receive from you . . . the punishment I deserve...