Word: hsi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government (TIME, Nov. 27), what about Foreign Minister T. V. Soong, the Gissimo's able, Harvard-trained brother-in-law? Once called "Asia's greatest statesman," T. V. Soong was an ace trouble shooter and efficiency expert in government. And what about the powerful Cheng Hsueh Hsi (Political Science Group), the organization of Chinese businessmen who favor swifter modernization of their country's political and economic structure...
Among Cheng Hsueh Hsi's leaders were General Chang Chun, 60, governor of Szechwan, once known as the Gissimo's "one-man brain trust," and Dr. Wu Ting-chang, 56, banker, expublisher of the influential Ta Rung Pao, and governor of Kweichow. The appointment of T. V. Soong as President of the Executive Yuan or the inclusion of the Political Science Group in the Government would indicate how far Chiang intended to go in liberalizing his regime. Said Ta Kung Pao last week: "Now is the time" for more changes "to increase administrative efficiency...
...city's commander, General Pai Chung-hsi, one of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's most trusted aides, was receiving China's pitiful best in reinforcements, arms and food. Kweilin and its strange hills, like inverted ice cream cones, began to bristle with improvised defenses: coolies dug broad trenches in the city's streets and vacant lots. The stage was set for the biggest, most fateful battle since Hankow...
...mustered since Hengyang (which withstood siege for 41 days). The city had miles of barbed wire entanglements; pillboxes fashioned from torndown buildings. It had the best fed, best armed, best uniformed soldiers remaining among China's tattered legions. For commander it had bald, white-gloved General Pai Chung-hsi, one of Kwangsi Province's best, fresh from talks with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. To aid Pai, General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell sent every ounce of U.S. small arms, mortars and ammunition that could be spared from the tonnage flown over the Hump...
Model Town. In Kenanpo the news men met aged, wily Yen Hsi-shan, an old-style but relatively progressive warlord. Once he was an enemy of Chiang Kaishek, is now his honored representative. The slippered old man, in a private's uniform, told them of his program to out smart the Communists by improving administration, lifting the lot of the peasant. But Yen's main job was to watch the Japanese, 20 miles to the east. The news men watched coolies singsong a dismantled truck up the cliff, for use on the highway leading to the static front...