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...TIME'S 1936 choice: Wallis Warfield Simpson. In 1937, TIME'S Man and Wife of the Year were Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek...
Common to both suggestions, gracing them with what the Asians fear most from America, is use of Chiang Kai-shek's troops. Employing a discredited army and a has-been who is considered reactionary and dictatorial throughout the Far East, would be the worst blunder conceivable. Not only would it smack of overweaning meddling, but it would burden the United States with the worst sort of albatross, and demolish this country as a force in Asia for years to come...
...American Government allows, we want to fight in Korea. Nationalist troops will fight Communists no matter where they are. It is not like civil war, not Chinese fighting Communists. In Boston we help get money for invasion of China. It is by invasion that Chiang Kai-shek will drive out the Communists and renew the Republic. We did not get help from America before; General Marshall wanted the help, but he did not understand the situation. Now the people will follow Chiang and drive out the Communists...
After spending two months in a San Francisco hospital, Mme. Chiang Kai-shek arrived in New York City to take further treatment for a skin ailment and to visit with her sister, Mme. H. H. Kung, on Long Island...
...their way to the front of the crowd and hoisted their placards. There were six signs, so they asked a small boy to hold one. The signs read: "Harvard's for Harry," "Because if Ike's Elected--," "Joe McCarthy for Attorney General," "Fred Hartley for Secretary of Labor," "Chiang Kai-Shek for Secretary of State," "John Bricker for Secretary of Commerce...