Word: kai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peace had come. Now China needed unity. Last week Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek acted decisively to unify his country...
...years ago, when Chiang Kai-shek retreated into western China rather than come to terms with the Japanese, he was forced into an area barely under his control and hardly touched by the national revolution. The two principal provinces of west China are Szechwan (pop.: 60 million) and Yunnan (pop.: 11 million). Both were dominated by old-style war lords. In 1941 Chiang ousted the war lord of Szechwan, appointing an honest and progressive governor...
...that the mission had been highly successful-or at least coincided with success. China had its treaty with Russia and it was peacefully debating with the once rambunctious Chinese Communists. No one, least of all Pat Hurley, would contend that the U.S. Ambassador had brought all this about. Chiang Kai-shek and Premier T. V. Soong had achieved the treaty with Moscow without outside help, and the treaty had immediately broken the back of Chinese Communist resistance...
Five weeks of meetings between Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung had been cloaked in profound official silence. But Chungking buzzed with expectation-and hope...
...July, the Japs issued an imperial edict freeing Dr. Stuart-if he would ask Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to negotiate with the U.S. for Japan. He refused either to leave his two companions or to transmit the terms. Less than a month later all three were free...