Word: kai-shek
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...guide the Kuomintang listened to the words of their leader. The harsh voice of the Generalissimo was unusually clipped, metallic. Chiang Kai-shek told the 150 solemn faces before him that the days of one-party administration in China were nearly over. It was time, he said, to take the third of Sun Yat-sen's three steps: from the era of political tutelage (under the Kuomintang) to the era of constitutional democracy. Then all political parties should have equal rights and the Kuomintang should no longer enjoy special privileges before...
...christened Chung Cheng and Chung Shan, the formal names of Chiang Kai-shek and Sun Yatsen...
They do not know what help, if any, Russia will ever be willing to give against Japan, and they noted suspiciously Russian press attacks on Chiang Kai-shek's anti-Communist policies last week. They naturally cannot yet see eye to eye with Russia on postwar plans for Germany and Eastern Europe...
...Chiang Kai-shek last week made his most important pronouncement on postwar policy. The Generalissimo recommended...
...Chiang Kai-shek told newsmen in Chungking she had nearly wound up on a Jap airfield on her way home. Her pilot, confused by radio signals from the field, had headed for it, then pulled away on a hunch. "I was feeling so sick at that moment," said Madame, "that I did not care where we landed. . . . I belong to the land and not to the sea or air." Reporting on the wartime U. S., she mentioned the hairpin and elastic shortage, but could give no word on girdles because, unlike the late John Barrymore, "I don't wear...