Word: kai-shek
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...chart a realistic and honorable settlement. No statements about hope for peace--no matter how much they reassure the United States public and ease the immediate crisis--can cover up basic contradictions in U.S. Far Eastern policy. For the United States is at once attempting to support Chiang Kai-shek militarily, to keep the Western alliance together, and to negotiate a "modus vivendi"--to use the President phrase--with Communist China...
Sequel. The President did not live to see Chiang Kai-shek's concurrence. But it was given, angrily yet inevitably. The Sino-Soviet treaties with all of Stalin's demands in Manchuria and Outer Mongolia were signed Aug. 14, 1945-the day Japan surrendered. In return for Chiang's concurrence, Stalin recognized Chinese sovereignty over Manchuria, promised Chiang military and economic...
...Finland that the Aruba's mission "could not fail to evoke the disapproval of the free world." The Finnish government insisted that the Aruba was a privately owned ship under charter to a firm in Hong Kong-the principal Hong Kong company used by the Chinese Reds. Chiang Kai-shek vowed to seize the ship as soon as she came within range of his guns or planes. A detachment of five U.S. warships, including the aircraft carrier Kearsarge, steamed into the Singapore roadstead on what was in fact a routine visit; whereupon the Red Chinese radio began to crackle...
...hold such resounding titles as commander in chief of the First War Zone, commander in chief of the Chinese Expedition to Burma, and finally commander in chief of the Chinese Army. He became a full general, and a member of the Kuomintang's powerful Central Executive Committee. Chiang Kai-shek was so delighted with him that he renamed a town in Wei's honor-an honor that no other living Chinese has received...
...CHIANG KAI-SHEK (382 pp.)-Emily Hahn-Doubleday...