Word: kai-shek
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...against time and distance Thomas Hutton and Donald Stevenson had to do the best they could with what was available, and look to the west and north for more. Down from China marched troops from Chiang Kai-shek's Army. The defenders of the Far East could only hope that many more reinforcements of men and planes were coming from the west...
Because he is too big to be put under even the Wavell hat, China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was given supreme command over land and air forces of the Allies in the China area. Besides-and this was a significant clue as to the possible operation of the joint command-the Gissimo will lead in "such portions of Indo-China and Thailand as may be available to troops of the united nations...
...defend the Burma Road, one of Democracy's two vital lifelines (see p. 18), one of the world's greatest men, one of Britain's greatest generals and one of the U.S.'s greatest hopefuls met for three days last week. In Chungking Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek received Britain's Indian Commander, General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, and the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Army Air Corps, Major General George H. Brett. They met to devise the ABCs of Allied land and air strategy...
...making his brother-in-law, T. V. Soong, Foreign Minister of China, Chiang Kai-shek last week formally recognized two facts. One was the extraordinary ability of one of China's top administrators; the other, that China no longer has any "foreign relations" in the old sense...
...plane from Chungking to Manila, by ship from Manila to Hawaii, through the sub marine-infested Pacific in the first convoy to reach the West Coast since the Japanese attack. Captured last summer in the cool hills of inner China, they are presented to the U.S. by Mme. Chiang Kai-shek in gratitude for the activities of United China Relief. In a new, barless $15,000 home at New York City's Bronx Zoo, the new pandas will be weaned from bamboo shoots to a diet of Pablum, orange juice, milk, honey, raw eggs...