Word: kai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army hotly denied that its telegram to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek fortnight ago, notifying him that its objectives had been reached, was a plea for peace. It was nothing more, said Army spokesmen, than an old Chinese custom-after an overwhelming victory, offer the beaten enemy merciful terms. But the Army could not deny that it had failed to send similar telegrams after its victories at Shanghai, Nanking, Hankow. Three days after the newly assembled straw army of Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei was reported in revolt, Premier Yonai assured the Diet that the forthcoming installation of Puppet Wang would...
...peace likely? As long as Japanese soldiers remain on South Chinese soil, no. As long as the Japanese refuse to discuss terms with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek himself-not the "Chungking Government"-no. A remote chance for peace (for a time) lies in the Japanese withdrawing to the five occupied northern provinces, the Chinese conceding them. But if the war drags on-for six months, a year, two-Japan may slip off the rope to the end of which she has so nearly come. If that happens, if Japan's military economy collapses, then all Hirohito's horses...
This did not mean peace. Not until the Japanese are driven or withdraw from all China will Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek even talk peace. But it did mean a breather for weary China, and it meant, too, that even if Japanese armies can still whip the Chinese, economic and political troubles in Tokyo have seriously checked the Japanese army...
...year opened, the rival forces sat quiescent. There had been a lull ever since the Japanese capture of Hankow in October 1938. The Japanese were waiting for Wang Ching-wei's defection from the Chungking Government and the subsequent collapse (they hoped) of Chiang Kai-shek's regime. Wang fled but Chiang stayed. That meant the Japanese would have to fight some more. Their plan was to try to engulf Chungking in a giant pincer, north and south. A sudden drive, almost unresisted, took Nanchang to the South. But then the Chinese had a series of successes greater...
Elected first president of the Harvard Club of Chungking, temporary capital of China, was owl-eyed, moon-faced T. V. Soong ('15), "China's Smartest Banker" and Chiang Kai-shek's brother...