Word: kai-shek
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...supporter of the New Deal, Pound later became an outspoken critic of what he saw as the judicial-administrative invasion of traditional legislative functions. A life-long Republican, Pound became in the late forties one of the foremost critics of U.S. Asian policy and a strong supporter of Chiang Kai-shek...
...From Peking came birthday greetings signed by Mao and other Chinese leaders, expressing the hope that the split was "only temporary." Yet almost in the same breath, the Peking press called Khrushchev a traitor, "a dragon who changes his colors," and "even more stupid than the Americans and Chiang Kai-shek...
...regime of Chiang Kai-shek, Barnett declared, is more democratic than that of Mao because it held elections at one time. The United States should not recognize Peking because that government is in trouble and may even be ready to change or collapse. The Chinese Communists are bad because they have a 'religious conviction," that the world must eventually go Communist and unworthy of diplomatic recognition because they do not abide by Western rules of diplomacy, he said...
MacArthur was convinced that he could win the war only by throwing Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Chinese forces into the fight on the Chinese mainland and by carrying the war across the Yalu River into Manchuria. President Harry Truman and his Joint Chiefs of Staff argued that such tactics would inevitably bring Communist China into the Korean war. It would be, explained General Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, "the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong enemy...
...fire was reserved for the U.S., which he equated with Russia as a foe of Red China. How would the U.S. like it, he demanded, if China ringed American territory with military bases? As for Formosa, Mao clearly felt that time was on his side. Chiang Kai-shek is an old man, he said, and since Red China had already waited 15 years to take over Formosa, it could patiently wait a little longer. "We could even get along with the Americans if they quit Formosa. Why, if they were to leave, we would see them off with flowers...