Word: kai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chiang Kai-shek sat alone in a room adjoining the Kuomintang auditorium in Chungking. In the hall itself waited 500 Party delegates, government leaders, scholars, celebrities. Before them on the platform stood nine fine bronze tings.* They were inscribed with a classical eulogy, of a type which Chinese tradition reserves for the greatest of men. Copied from ancient models, the vessels carried a symbolic message which was capable of affecting history...
...Chiang Kai-shek was concerned-and his alone was the power-the 450 million Chinese would keep on their road toward democracy. They would suffer no Son of Heaven...
Britain's contingent was even bigger. China's delegation was small by comparison: ten officers headed by General Shang Cheng, Director of Foreign Affairs of the National Military Council; Chiang Kai-shek acted only as head of his political mission, consulting with Roosevelt and Churchill on general questions but attending none of the military discussions...
President Roosevelt, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Prime Minister Churchill declared at Cairo...
...news stories of the year-the meeting of Churchill, Chiang Kai-shek and Roosevelt at Cairo-Reuters had scooped the pants off the U.S. press. The result almost reached the proportions of an inter-Allied incident...