Word: kai-shek
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...Formosa Nixon assured Chiang Kai-shek that the U.S. in its Geneva discussions is mapping no end-around play on Far East allies whose anti-Communist front has been molded at U.S. insistence. From there he flew on for stops in Pakistan and Turkey...
...recent months, Radio Peking has dropped most of the insults ("running dog," etc.) in front of Chiang Kai-shek's name, now treats him as if he were merely a stubborn old fellow. But Chou could not resist a passing reference to Formosa's "dying gasp." Answered Nationalist China's Foreign Minister George K. C. Yeh: "Pure nonsense...
...done far more to frighten our allies and our potential allies than to scare the Soviet Union. The President has asked for close consultation between the U.S. and Britain and France, but the Secretary of State has released the Yalta Papers, announced U.S. Middle Eastern policy, and "unleashed" Chiang Kai-shek, without much more than a glance at Western Europe...
...most famous was probably Marshal Vasily Bluecher, a Civil War hero who fought the White Cossacks and White General Wrangel's forces (1920). later drove the Japanese out of the Maritime Province and captured Vladivostok. Chiang Kai-shek drafted Bluecher as military adviser to China, where he helped organize the famed Whampoa Academy. Shortly thereafter Chiang broke with the Communists and took over Whampoa; Bluecher became Russia's top general in the Far East. "If war bursts like thunder in the Far East," he once said, "we will answer the attack with such a blow that the foundations...
...native Chinese who won his Master's and Doctor's degrees in history at Harvard, served until 1945 as a high official in the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek, and has now retired to California. His book centers on one all-important fact about the Chinese Communist regime: that it is here to stay. Writing in a colorless but lucid style, the author first describes how, during the 1930's, the Communists managed to win the active support of China's peasantry, thus succeeding where Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang party had failed. Interesting, ableit somewhat chilling...