Word: kai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city's commander, General Pai Chung-hsi, one of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's most trusted aides, was receiving China's pitiful best in reinforcements, arms and food. Kweilin and its strange hills, like inverted ice cream cones, began to bristle with improvised defenses: coolies dug broad trenches in the city's streets and vacant lots. The stage was set for the biggest, most fateful battle since Hankow...
...Chungking, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek addressed the nation, promised: "The coming year will not only bring us final victory, but will also witness the success of our national revolution." But he added a warning...
...last the real friends of China were beginning to talk back to China's detractors. It was high time. For China desperately needed the U.S. and the U.S. needed China. But relations between President Roosevelt and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had never been worse...
...weeks ago Chiang Kai-shek began to take steps to reform the draft machinery. One of his ablest generals, Chen Cheng, is pushing a reorganization of the Army, to abolish about a third of its theoretical divisions, so that henceforth Chinese Army units will be full strength...
...meeting from a dozen others. In the assembly hall a blue and white banner over the platform bore the legend "love and security." A large likeness of the late, great Dr. Sun Yat-sen stared down with brooding eyes at bored back-row members who read newspapers through Chiang Kai-shek's opening speech. Unsuspecting General Ho Ying-chin made an ominous report on Japanese advances, conditions in the Chinese Army. Suddenly it, happened. General Ho reeled under a blistering barrage of critical questions...