Word: kai-shek
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...expression of awe on a face ordinarily expressionless. He was Lauchlin Currie, President Roosevelt's administrative assistant, sent on a fact-finding trip to China. Watching the mass of labor, Lauchlin Currie observed that the building of the pyramids must have looked like this. But in Chiang Kai-shek's China there was no slave driver with a lash. The job was bossed by a Chinese civil engineer (a graduate of the University of Illinois) who directed the 75,000 by blowing a whistle...
...were in Hong Kong to welcome Currie, and give him, after an 11,183 -mile flight, a "washing dust" reception - a most courteous ceremony, reserved for distinguished visitors who are theoretically tired and dusty after a long journey. Thereafter, honors and interviews; two weekends with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek at his mountain hideaway; inspection of an aviation training school, where a Chinese band ground out The Star-Spangled Banner] a review of 1,000 cadets at China's West Point; talks with the Foreign Minister, the Finance Minister, innumerable experts...
...living chain of small industry over 2,000 miles long." Its links were some 2,300 plants in 16 provinces, run by 300,000 Chinese. Entire overhead for one month is but $6,000, of which two-thirds comes from overseas. For the Kuomintang is reluctant to help. Chiang Kai-shek's shih-shih (yes-yes) men see in it "a new kind of democratic working-class mobilization outside their control...
Japan's potential victims plucked up their courage too. In Chungking the Hunan Provincial People's Political Council stepped into the dispute between Chiang Kai-shek's Government and the Communists, appealed to Communist Leaders Mao Tse-tung and Chu Teh to end the "undiscipline" of Communist Army units and join the Government in a fresh attack on Japan. In Vichy the French Government announced that it would reject Japan's terms for ending the Thailand-Indo-China war, that French Indo-China would resume fighting rather than give Thailand 50,000 square miles of territory...
...Lend Chiang Kai-shek another...