Word: kai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yuan Shih-kai...
...Lend Chiang Kai-shek another...
Last week the Chinese High Command in bomb-scarred Chungking had grave new worries. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's troops have been getting most of their war supplies from the southwest over the Burma Road, from the southeast by night smuggling from Hong Kong-via Chinese junks and coolies' carts-to the free sections of the Canton-Hankow railway. Last week the Japanese were slicing viciously at both supply lines...
...Chinese Government. The U. S. had recently lent China $100,000,000, half of which was to bolster its skidding currency. President Roosevelt had just dispatched to Chung king his Administrative Assistant Lauchlin Currie to study the menace of Chinese inflation. In China, 28% uneasily occupied. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek recently had prevented internal disorder by disarming and disbanding the Comunist Fourth Route Army for unsubordination...
Japan is not fighting a united nation in China, but a restless coalition of Nationalists and Communists. Without the help of the Communist armies Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek cannot hope to defeat Japan. But Chiang must not pay so dearly for their help that, in the event of a victory over Japan, the Communists would control the Chinese Government. So Chiang has had to follow a flexuous policy of giving the Communists enough arms, money and freedom of action to keep them fighting against Japan, but not enough to let them maneuver themselves into a commanding position in South China...