Word: kai-shek
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Citing such examples as Chiang Kai-Shek in China, Ngo Dinh Diem in South Viet Nam, and Syngman Rhee in South Korea, Lattimore claimed that the U.S. could not possibly be successful in forcing a country to accept a form of government its people no longer wanted...
Early Discord. The alliance cracked at the outset in 1924 when Stalin ordered the fledgling Chinese Communists to merge with Chiang Kai-shek to further Russia's long-range aim of ousting the West from China. Only three years later, Chiang abruptly turned on his local Communist allies...
...that without the Brazzaville group, it probably would be unable to shelve the question of seating Red China this year (by having it declared a substantive issue-or one requiring a two-thirds majority). Pressure was brought to bear on Nationalist China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek by President Kennedy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Ambassador to Nationalist China Everett Drumright to give up his veto of Outer Mongolia. Chiang refused to budge; he feared that membership for Outer Mongolia was only the first step in the U.N. recognition of Red China. Bitterly, he sent a letter...
...Pusey visited the National Taiwan University in the morning with his wife and Mr. and Mrs. R. Keith Kane. Mr. Kane is a member of the seven-man governing board of the Harvard Corporation. Dr. Pusey and his party were received by President and Madame Chiang Kai-Shek at 4:30 in the afternoon...
...puppet republic embedded in Red China, gets in the club at the same time. So the Africans have told the U.S.: Accept both Outer Mongolia and Mauritania as U.N. members, and we will vote with you against Red China-at least this year. The U.S. assented. But Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Nationalists indignantly promised to veto the Outer Mongolians, since Chiang considers them part of his China anyway. If he carries through his threat when the issue comes up before the Security Council this week, the U.S. fears that he may inadvertently help Red China get into...