Word: kai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was tied down in Chungking, so he asked Madame Chiang to be his good-will envoy extraordinary to Manchuria. It was the first big job she had undertaken on her own in three years. At Changchun, the Manchurian capital, it was 14° below zero and the snow lay deep. Bundled in a beaver coat, fur cap and ankle-high rubber boots, China's beautiful First Lady deplaned from her private C-47, smiled and waved to a waiting crowd...
...January 10 the 38 delegates to the P.C.C., an advisory body representing every shade of the nation's political color chart, had begun their task with cautious hope. Two notable events-a truce in the civil war, a bill of rights proclaimed by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek-augured well for their discussions. They debated with dignity and restraint, then sent their main problems to subcommittees for final recommendation. U.S. newsmen reported that the democratic process was genuinely in operation...
Then Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek made a speech to the nation. Once again he demanded the nationalization of China's Communist armies, the ending of a state-within-a-state. "The people's most persistent aspirations," he said, "are stability and reconstruction. ... If there is more than one supreme authority who can issue military and administrative orders, if the means of communication and transportation are destroyed here and there . . . the people can never have their aspirations realized...
Chungking estimates that in the provinces occupied by Japan 30 million Chinese became opium, heroin, morphine or hashish addicts. Wherever the enemy advanced, he deliberately undid the patient, progressive work of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Opium Suppression Commission. This agency, aided by the indefatigable New Life Movement, had gone far toward stamping out the cultivation, sale and use of narcotics...
...Japan and China. "A limited war was always our intention," he explained. "Throughout the war on both sides there were always those who hoped to be able to end the war by negotiated peace." Japan had indeed sought persistently to end the "China incident" by negotiations with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, or somebody. The Generalissimo, even in direst straits, refused to listen; the other somebodies were of no avail...