Word: kai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long as the cold war continues; as long as this country proceeds on a program of militarization and superarmaments; as long as our foreign policy is based on building and sustaining reactionary and fascist governments abroad (as witness the sending of American Marines and equipment to bolster Chiang Kai-Shek) as long as the military and big businessmen of the Dulles-Forrestal variety exercise such tremendous control over this country's approach to foreign and domestic issues, that for this period, we shall remain as before: draft-bait. A sudden "emergency" could well play havoc with the "deferment" policy...
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, Wellesley '13, may not got a United States loan, but she may very well wind up with a high-paying job if Miss Harriet Oxehham, Wellesley '47, has anything to say about it. She sent a letter yesterday to the college's Board of Trustees urging that the Missimo succeed Mildred McAfee Horton as president on the latter's retirement this June...
...difference between Chiang Kai-shek and a Western European, such as the late Jan Masaryk, was that Chiang never believed that his Communists were "different." He had known them too long, had sensed better than many men in the West that there was no position of neutrality one could take with Communists. Mao Tse-tung had put it very well: "To use the word 'neutral' is to do nothing but cheat oneself...
...Chiang Kai-shek is a man of principle, not an opportunist, not a warlord, not (his enemies finally admitted) a grafter. His principles, however, are not always clear or consistent. The conflict between the old and new, unresolved in China, is also unresolved in China's Chiang. He had been right so often, when those around him were wrong, that taking advice did not come easily to him. Three times-from Canton, from Sian, and from Chungking-he had fought his way out of hopeless situations. Such an experience might breed arrogance, and many believe that Chiang is arrogant...
...Chiang Kai-shek may be defeated by the Reds, largely because too many of his aids are "corrupt...