Word: kai-shek
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Both among diplomats here and at Nanking it was viewed as a likely signal for the start of the full scale civil war long brewing between Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist government and the Communists in North China...
...story involves an ex-Harvard professor named Lewis Teigne who disappears mysteriously from his house near Shanghai. Perhaps he has gone over to the Japanese invaders. Perhaps he is trying to convince quarreling China that Chiang Kai-shek is indeed "the Polar Star that stays in its place," a national symbol...
Communists who had joined the party out of sheer disgust at governmental corruption. Said George Marshall: "Successful action on their part under the leadership of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek would, I believe, lead to unity through good government...
...however, the Russian flood was contained. On the dam that held it many men had labored- Bevin and Bidault, General Lucius Clay in Germany, Mark Clark in Austria, The Netherlands' Eelco van Kleffens and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak in U.N., Mac-Arthur in Japan, Chiang Kai-shek in China, and, eminently, Senator Arthur Vandenberg in the U.S. But the dam's chief builder was James F. Byrnes of Spartanburg, S.C., who became the firm and patient voice of the U.S. in the councils of the world...
...piece in the U.S. policy structure, John Carter Vincent, director of the State Department's Far Eastern Division, last fortnight rushed in to fill the vacuum left by Byrnes's absence; Vincent drafted for Truman a statement which was, to say the least, impatient toward Chiang Kai-shek and infirm in opposing the Reds...