Word: kai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Disloyal Opposition. The Communists have said, first of all, that Chiang Kai-shek and his Government will not unite with them in the fight against Japan. Now is it not to our country's interest to have China united? Therefore, must we not insist that Chiang Kai-shek and the established Government of China cooperate with the Communists...
...beginning and during all these seven years, and reiterated the offer last month, that he will accept them in a coalition government immediately if they will become just a political party-that is, will give up their separate army and their separate government. For us to insist that Chiang Kai-shek reconcile himself to a splitting of his own country and send military supplies to an armed rebellion is to ask him to be a traitor. Of course, he has not been willing to do it, and will not, unless the Communists will, first of all, give up their separate...
...third main source of the propaganda against the Government of China. A lot of it is approved, even inspired, by persons in our own War and State Departments. There are several reasons for this sorry spectacle. There has been a fundamental difference of opinion from the beginning between Chiang Kai-shek and some of our leaders as to the best way to fight the war. Chiang Kai-shek maintained we could not beat the Japanese from the air or from the sea; they must be beaten on the mainland of Asia...
...then there is the third group, the Central Government of China led by Chiang Kai-shek and men who are mostly Western-trained students, from America and England. There are unquestionably some who have been in power too long, are reactionary, even corrupt. But on the whole they have been loyal to the ideas and ideals they learned here and have tried their best under enormous difficulties to make China a sister republic in Asia...
...Kwangsi, where Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's resurgent army harried the retreating Japs (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS) provincial authorities executed four Communist guerrilla leaders for "rebellion." The rebels, it was charged, had operated under a Communist order to direct "propaganda against the Kuomintang Government . . . using charges of corruption of officials to shake the confidence of the people in the supreme military and administrative leaders of the country."* More & more Chinese Communist guerrillas were filtering through Japanese lines in Central China, fighting here & there with Central Government troops. Chungking's War Minister, General Chen Cheng, deplored the clashes, declared that...