Word: kai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian defensive remained to be developed. Remembering how they beat Napoleon-and perhaps Chiang Kai-shek's defense of China-the Russians have the option of using the size of their country as a weapon to wear down the enemy. On the first day mass flights of Russian bombers attacked East Prussia. But Red withdrawal would eventually be necessary, because the position held by the Russians was dangerous; in the initial phases geography was on the side of the Germans...
Curtiss P-40s were already winging their way over the mountains of southwest China; in Washington it was said that more hundreds of fighter planes were promised. Oil was at last available-all the oil and gasoline that the thirsty cylinders of Chiang Kai-shek's war machine wanted...
...connected with the attempted formation of a "peace bloc" including Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and Nanking which would assure them all of co-prosperity, end Russia's assistance to Free China. It was hoped that the last move would throw that land into civil war between Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Communists, thus free Japanese troops for movement southward. In short, to Japan's advocates of force, last week looked like a good week to get going...
Still carrying on at his desk, although relieved of his post and title by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek because of the catastrophe, was plucky, chubby Mayor K. C. ("Casey") Wu, still proud of his municipal-built dugouts. The confidence of Chungking's fighting little men in their Air-Raid Protective System, still the world's best, was, however, shaken...
Western scales and harmonies do not seem to alarm the Chinese now. Their most popular song is March of the Volunteers, whose spare, vigorous melody was lately sung to Mme. Chiang Kai-shek by a group of children who had wandered 10,000 miles seeking refuge...