Word: kai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good, grey New York Times summed up the situation in a stinging editorial: "The Chinese Communists . . . are in open rebellion against President Chiang Kai-shek and his Government; they repudiate his order . . . which they are pledged to obey. . . . They want domination. They are not a political party; they are a conspiracy to seize the Chinese Government. And they consider the victory of the United Nations, in which they played a microscopic role, as their great opportunity...
...Washington, where Premier Soong conferred with President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes, there was widespread feeling that China was dissatisfied with the Russian pact. This was by no means certain. For Premier Soong's treaty had won for Chiang Kai-shek a breathing spell in which China's Government could strengthen itself. How successful the breathing spell would prove depended in part on how much support-economic, financial and diplomatic-China would get from...
Wearing a simple khaki uniform, no decorations, Chiang Kai-shek sat com posed and erect before the microphone...
...President was tremendous. His people at home, the men of his armies and fleets thought that peace had all but come. Some of his most trusted advisers argued that the Japanese condition would mean little in practice-certainly not enough to justify a postponement of peace. Chiang Kai-shek presumably let him know that China sided with him against any concession to the Emperor. Britain's Attlee passed the buck. Stalin's views, if any, were known only to Truman...
This was an open challenge to the Central Government. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek met Yenan's defiance with a crackling reassertion of his acknowledged (but nominal) authority over all China, Free and Communist. To General ChuTeh he wired: Communist forces "must remain in their posts and wait for further directions. . . . To maintain the dignity of Government mandates and abide safely by decisions of "the Allies, all our troops are warned hereby never again to take independent action...