Word: kai-shek
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Aware that the invasion of Yünnan Province through Indo-China would put a serious crimp in his resistance and would enable the Japanese to cut the Burma Road should the British decide to reopen it, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek announced from Chungking that Chinese troops would counter-invade if Japanese forces were permitted to enter French Indo-China "under whatever pretext and whatever conditions...
...South Chinese are short, voluble, emotional, but the North Chinese are tall, silent and stubborn. In 1928 the then newfangled Chiang Kai-shek Government changed the name Peking (Northern Capital) to Peiping (Northern Peace). The farmers in the neighborhood did not like the Chiang Government and so they refused to call the city by its new name...
...straddler. He was once a melancholy Marxist, and amused himself by translating Oscar Wilde. Five years ago it was said that he was a Liberal because he sent his golf-playing son Fumitaka ("Butch") to Princeton. But two years ago he talked fascist: said he wanted to see Chiang Kai-shek's head roll in a basket...
...Japanese militarists, occupation of French Indo-China was a delightful prospect. It would shorten both the long faces of discouraged civilians at home and the China campaign-by cutting Chiang Kai-shek's chief supply lines. If & when the U. S. Fleet were shifted from the Pacific to the Atlantic, Japan could begin her long-planned campaign to drive the white man from all Asia...
Last week tall, tart Alexander Ernst Alfred Hermann von Falkenhausen, who as Chiang Kai-shek's chief military adviser once taught Chinese troops to goose-step, took over the military Government of the Low Countries for Adolf Hitler. At the same time Berlin let it be known that Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart of Austria and points east, Germany's handy man for disciplining captured countries, would become civil administrator of The Netherlands when the time is ripe...