Word: kai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese militarists, occupation of French Indo-China was a delightful prospect. It would shorten both the long faces of discouraged civilians at home and the China campaign-by cutting Chiang Kai-shek's chief supply lines. If & when the U. S. Fleet were shifted from the Pacific to the Atlantic, Japan could begin her long-planned campaign to drive the white man from all Asia...
Last week tall, tart Alexander Ernst Alfred Hermann von Falkenhausen, who as Chiang Kai-shek's chief military adviser once taught Chinese troops to goose-step, took over the military Government of the Low Countries for Adolf Hitler. At the same time Berlin let it be known that Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart of Austria and points east, Germany's handy man for disciplining captured countries, would become civil administrator of The Netherlands when the time is ripe...
Bursting with pride in Chinese prowess, the press office of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek announced last week that 97 Japanese officers and 1,800 troops were slain in a stiff engagement in the province of Honan when Chinese forces stormed "Kaifeng, the first provincial capital recaptured since Japan began the war on July...
...hours later Japanese Army communiques said that Chinese troops had forced their way into part of Kaifeng at 5 a.m. but were driven out at 2 p.m. The Japanese count: 150 Chinese dead, five Japanese, including one Japanese major. Sadly next day Chiang Kai-shek's spokesman admitted that "the first provincial capital recaptured" was being evacuated by the Chinese...
...Alley. Their conclusion: China's only military skill was in small, mobile, spontaneous units; why not build China's economy in similar units-develop a guerrilla industry? John Alexander broached the idea to his boss. Sir Archibald was enthusiastic, at once took the plan to Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung. They, too, were keen. Dr. Kung allotted $2,000,000 (Chinese), promised $3,000,000 more. On Aug. 5, 1938, the leaders met and constituted themselves as a central committee of the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives. Fittingly this economic defense against Japanese penetration...