Word: kai-shek
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...goods and braced themselves for a final effort to drive the Chinese from coastal Fukien Province. With Fukien would go the best remaining bases in China for air attack on Japan. The Japanese also stabbed at interior Hunan with a double aim: to take an area valuable to Chiang Kai-shek's armies, to extend Jap control of eastern China's railways...
...fast losing her war with Japan, and that means that the United Nations are fast losing Asia. To beat China down, it is not necessary for the Japanese to take every bit of Chinese terrain, or even most of it. China is war-parched and war-tired. Chiang Kai-shek does not want to give up to the Japanese, but high in the councils of Chungking there are those who might make peace and set up with Japan an Asiatic imperialism, with the white man evicted finally and forever. If China sinks farther into the morass of defeat, the Chungking...
Champion to date of the 1942 season of honorary degrees is War Production Boss Donald M. Nelson. By this week he had four-from Harvard, Northwestern, Missouri, Pennsylvania Military College. Among others given honorary degrees last week: Mme. Chiang Kai-shek (in absentia), Raymond Gram Swing, Sumner Welles, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Frank Knox, Henry L Stimson, J. Edgar Hoover, Nicnolas Murray Butler...
...Chungking, Gissimo Chiang Kai-shek is as famous for his timing as a Swiss watch. But last week, at the moment when he made this statement, the news seemed to shout that he had his schedule of optimism all mixed...
...soldiers knew that it would not stop until the Jap was thrown back or until he had the whole eastern railroad system in his hands. With it would go more than the supply system for eastern Free China. With it would go many of the airdromes prepared by Chiang Kai-shek and his patient coolies for the blow at Japan that is yet to come...