Word: kai-shek
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...cover, e.g., three sons of George V of Great Britain (Aug. 8. 1927); four Marx brothers-Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo (Aug. 15, 1932); and three of Edsel Ford's sons. Benson, William and Henry II (May 18, 1953). There have been couples, including Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Oct. 26, 1931; Jan. 3, 1938), Ambassador to Russia and Mrs. Joseph Davies (March 15, 1937) and Stage Luminaries Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne (Nov. 8. 1937). But never before has TIME'S cover been a full family portrait...
After Pearl Harbor, he was elected to Congress by Minneapolis neighbors who raised his funds and ran his campaign. In the capital he championed the cause of Nationalist China's Chiang Kai-shek when it was highly unpopular-a stand for which the Cowles-owned Minneapolis Star and Tribune still persistently belabor him. He thundered against the perils of the Chinese Communists, recently helped get statements from 7.000 Protestant clergymen backing his stand against U.S. recognition of Red China. He fought for foreign aid ("It offers the way to get the most security for the least cost") and help...
Died. Yen Hsi-shan, 77. governor of China's arid Shansi province much of the time between 1912 and 1949, who, in the defeat that sent Chiang Kai-shek's government to Formosan exile in 1949, served as Nationalist China's last mainland Pre mier; of a heart attack; in Taipei...
...Nationalist China capital of Taipei, Mme. Chiang Kai-shek unveiled a bronze bust of China's good friend and defender, Lieut. General Claire Chennault, the original Flying Tiger, dead since 1958. The likeness, catching the essence of Chennault's leathery, steel-spined courage, is in a children's playground and faces Chiang's official mansion. Cabled the President of the U.S.: "While his mortal remains lie among those of America's soldiers of all wars [in Arlington National Cemetery], his spirit is memorialized today in Free China...
...away with it? Some say his age saves him; others speak of a powerful friend. A mandarin trained before World War I at Yale and Columbia (he wrote a thesis on New York City municipal finances), Ma returned to China around 1918 to teach, and to advise Chiang Kai-shek from time to time on economic matters. Always a maverick, he was arrested by the Nationalists during World War II as one of the Chiang government's most vehement Kuomintang critics. Ma later acknowledged that Communist Liaison Officer Chou En-lai "did everything in his power to save...