Word: kai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cairo the Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek were the first to arrive, flying in from Chungking aboard a four-engined U.S. transport plane. Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, with their separate parties, traveled to Africa by ship, made the last leg of the trip by plane...
...officially, because of his partial deafness. Major Chennault told a friend: "I'm glad to get out [of the Air Corps]. They're still running it with the old 1917-18 ideas." That same year the dark, determined Louisianian went to Shanghai and became Chiang Kai-shek's air adviser. "Why," he had growled, "should I worry my brains out when I can prove my theories somewhere else?" In a few months, the Japs almost wiped out his infant air force, but Chennault did not regret his move or noticeably pine for the U.S. Air Corps...
...still "two wars." Only Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Chiang Kai-shek were together when the war with Japan was plotted to its intended finish of "unconditional surrender" The President, the Prime Minister, Joseph Stalin of the U.S.S.R. still had to meet to plot the finish of Germany. -The first announcement from the Pacific "Big Three" restated the obvious: "Japan shall be stripped of all the islands in the Pacific which she has seized...
...whole world, tongue aclack, waited only to hear when & where Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill would meet. The Nazi satellite radios guessed at everything but Mr. Roosevelt's room number. There was even talk that the Big Three might turn out to be a Big Four, with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek joining the historic rendezvous...
...momentous conference in Chungking closed last week in deafening silence. For a day and a half Lord Louis Mountbatten, Allied Commander in Southeast Asia, had talked with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his wife, with top Chinese generals, with U.S. Lieut. Generals Joseph Stilwell and Brehon Somervell. Then, looking tired, with crow's-feet showing at the corners of his eyes, Lord Louis hurried back to India...