Word: kai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine months the U.S. had had no China policy beyond indecisive hostility and righteous advice for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government. From behind the scenes came rumors that the U.S. was preparing to pull out of China and rest its Asiatic defense on Japan and the Philippine Islands. Ostensibly, the Wedemeyer report was designed to help George Marshall decide what, if anything, to do next. The choice was between aid to China or abandonment of her 400 million people to the threat of Communism...
Said President Chiang Kai-shek last fortnight: "The mistake most of our comrades make is that they show too much tendency to rely upon foreign help. . . . Those who have energy must give energy; those who have money must give money." Ex-Premier T. V. Soong, one of China's wealthiest men and the President's brother-in-law, responded promptly...
...guerrilla strategy: "To hold on to a city till death is just the same as carrying a burden. If we do not give up certain cities when necessary, we would be stuck and on the defensive everywhere. If we threw away these burdens when we should, and let Chiang Kai-shek take them up one by one, his burdens will grow until finally he will be unable to walk...
...China, last year, she taught the game to Chiang Kai-shek...
...homeland this September and will take up advisory duties in the Department of Justice in Nanking. "He is very popular and well known in my country," said Chao, recalling that on the Professor's visit last summer he was an official guest at the villa of President Chiang Kai Shek...