Word: kai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since July, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's soldiers have clung to the east bank of the malaria-infested Salween (TIME, Dec. 7). For months they have guarded the pocked and broken upper half of the Burma Road which still belongs to them. In the first few days of the fighting in the gorge of the Wu-ti Ho last week they turned back the prongs of the Jap advance...
...blasted Haiphong in Indo-China, destroying shipping and munition dumps. Chennault's tactics were brilliant. Lightning-like, he struck around the compass. R.A.F. and U.S. pilots from India attacked Jap airdromes in Thailand and Burma. And in Yunnan, China's southernmost province, the troops of General Chiang Kai-shek waited in the jungles...
...party is run by 260 Central Executive Committeemen drawn from war areas, provincial capitals, Government bureaus, from diplomatic posts in Washington and London. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek runs China, but he almost always defers to the party's Executive Committee...
...Chiang Kai-shek told the People's Political Council: "No difficulties or sacrifices must deter us from the fulfillment of our duties as one unit of the forces of the United Nations. ... It is not for us boastfully to talk of China's right to a position of 'leadership' among the Asiatic countries. We shall rather regard it as our responsibility to treat the peoples of Asia as equals to help and support...
Subject prescribed by Friendly Neighbor for a Chinese essay contest: "Why we should overthrow Chiang Kai-shek...