Word: kai-shek
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...Sent word to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek that Congress had unanimously approved a $500,000,000 loan to China. Mr. Roosevelt congratulated the Gissimo on "the gallant resistance of the Chinese armies...
...under twelve leaders sent from Chungking. Truckloads of khaki-clad Chinese Communists rode to battle singing and saluting with clenched fists-a salute which on one occasion was answered by a grinning policeman, whose main job for several years had been the rounding up of Communists. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek sent his countrymen in Singapore a message: "Victory of the Allies means our victory...
...Y.M.C.A.'s great international organization, which now numbers 2,000,000 members in some 10,000 local associations in 60 lands. He pioneered in training native-born Y. workers, saw them strengthen the Y.'s influence in such lands as China-where six members of one Chiang Kai-shek Cabinet were former Y. secretaries. He personally has raised more than $300,000,000 for his causes...
...American-made Brewster Buffaloes and Curtiss P-40s swirling through a chattering dogfight. Between times an Allied force of 57 bombers and fighters swung into Indo-China, lashed fiercely at a big Jap airdrome at Hanoï. It was the heaviest blow struck in the area delegated to Chiang Kai-shek by the Allied Supreme Command (Thailand and Indo-China). The raiders reported they smashed up 21 aircraft on the ground, fired gasoline stores, burned down hangars. This successful attack from the air may have been a hint of the shape of things to come...
Fury. The Chinese and the Dutch were not too happy anyhow. They had been slighted in the formation of the Allied Supreme Far Eastern Command. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had not been taken into the joint counsels beforehand, had been tossed an unlikely bone-operations in Indo-China and Thailand. The Dutch had been left out altogether. And yet the Allied Supreme Command demanded Chinese troops, airmen and goods in Burma; then proceeded to Java and began to tell the Dutch what...