Word: kai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been wounded in action and have returned; most have been shifted from other crack divisions into this super-crack division. HiD and the other divisions of the Sixth War Area (see map, p. 25) are the bailiwick of brilliant Chen Cheng, who is Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's favorite general...
Little Brother. Chen Cheng is certainly a favorite. He is the only one of Chiang Kai-shek's generals whom the Generalissimo addresses by the Chinese diminutive, ti, "little brother." He rivals much-talked-of General Hu Tsung-nan, leader of the influential "Whampoa Clique," as candidate to succeed the Generalissimo. He and Hu are the only two generals who are permitted to receive orders direct from the Generalissimo without the countersignature of politically powerful Minister for War Ho Ying-chin...
...generals. He hitched his wagon to Chiang's star at Whampoa, has been riding high ever since. After his rise to public fame in Chiang's northern campaign of 1926, he divorced his wife and the Generalissimo arranged for him to marry the daughter of Tan Yen-kai, soon afterward Premier of China...
...cable of thanks to relief officials last week, Mme. Chiang Kai-shek said Chinese morale had been notably boosted by "the unprecedented scale of the present American . . . assistance to China." The American Friends Service Committee said it was sending an ambulance corps of 50 U.S., British and Canadian citizens, ten ambulances to China for duty on the Burma Road...
...Cousin of King George and husband of famously wealthy Edwina Cynthia Ashley, Lord Louis had already had a narrow escape last year when his ship, the Javelin, was torpedoed in a Channel battle but limped safely to port. . . . Ferrying planes from factory to field in Britain was Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's adopted son Chiang Wei-kuo. . . .Earthbound as a Home Guard battalion commander was Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, co-hero of the first non-stop flight from Newfoundland to Ireland in 1919 with Sir John Alcock...