Word: kai-shek
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...tenth day of October, the tenth month, is China's equivalent of Independence Day. Last week Nanking buzzed with rumors that Chiang Kai-shek was about to give Chinese a double reason for celebrating the Double Tenth. Had military successes against the Communists around Kalgan created a new political situation in which compromise and truce were possible? Some of the few who might know were suddenly more hopeful than they had been for weeks...
...when Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang were anathema to most "foreigners," I supported them, for I felt the facts indicated they were improving the people's welfare. It was not until my last trip to China, in 1940-41, that I became convinced that the Kuomintang would never bring democracy and its benefits to the Chinese people. On the other hand, I was convinced as early as 1938 that the people in the Communist-controlled areas were benefiting by the social-economic-political pattern that was being developed there...
...Government successes since the undeclared civil war began, all but a few miles of China's strategic railroad lines were free of Communist troops. Between the Communists' Inner Mongolia base at Kalgan, and their lair at Yenan, the fall of Tatung and Fengcheng enabled Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's forces to drive a battering wedge (see map). Another Government army closed in on Kalgan from Jehol...
...Nanking government, as it stands, contains the answer to Chinese difficulties, Washington might have taken advantage of the Moscow-Chungking agreement of 1945 to shed the Communist element entirely. As it stands, this country is on the fence in China, and while it might be worthwhile to encourage Chiang Kai-shek in his attempt to rehabilitate the country, Americans, and their government, seem to be more interested in encouraging Chiang to reach an agreement with the Communists...
...danger in these claims lies in the susceptibility of many elements of the American public, much less a trained legal mind, toward underrating the complexities of the Chinese dilemma. If Professor Pound states that Chiang Kai-shek is achieving reconversion, that the Communist question is overrated, and that the Kuomintang government is deserving of greater American support, he is bound to influence great segments of American thought, even if he does speak with the limited knowledge that he admits. The extremely narrow limits of his view, and the dangers inherent in it can be seen in the presence of General...