Word: kai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their prayer started traditionally enough: "We come with fragrant flowers and sweet wine to pray. . . ." Then came the political snapper: "No matter how American imperialism exerts itself, the children of the Yellow Emperor will unite under the Chinese Communist Party and . . . thoroughly exterminate all of Chiang Kai-shek's gangsters." They wished Huang Ti's posterity "10,000 years, 1,000 autumns...
...bare floodlit stage of Nanking's National Assembly hall strode the Gimo, erect and austere in five-starred military khaki. He took his stand under a backdrop portrait of Sun Yat-sen while 2,500 Assembly delegates applauded.Then Chiang Kai-shek reported on the state of the nation...
...leader secluded himself in cold, lonely Kuling last winter, the Chinese people knew only that he was meditating on China's fate. Last week, China and the world learned of the decision Chiang had reached. In an effort to lead China farther along the road to democracy, Chiang Kai-shek would relinquish the presidency of his country...
...Chiang Kai-shek didn't take it. He insisted that Stilwell be replaced. Stilwell writes, "It looks very much as if they had gotten me at last. The Peanut has gone off his rocker and Roosevelt has apparently let me down completely. If Old Softie gives in on this, as he apparently has, the Peanut will be out of control from now on. . . . God help the next...
After 19 hours the hunger strikers finally permitted themselves to be taken home by policemen. Tired-looking Chiang Kai-shek welcomed the delegates and then, in a mildly tolerant gesture, returned to his residence to have tea with the "irregulars." The day before, the Generalissimo had attended the last meeting of the People's Political Council (which for ten years had functioned as China's provisional Parliament). In his farewell address, Chiang had some significant things to say about tolerance: "I have committed many blunders during these past ten years, but the worst was my tolerance toward...