Word: kai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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China is Belden's special beat-but last April when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek sent his Armies slogging down the Burma Road to help Britain keep China's back door open, Belden went along into Burma. When he reached Maymyo he found two other members of the TIME & LIFE News Bureau already on hand at General Stilwell's mission-house headquarters-Correspondent Clare Boothe and Photographer George Rodger-so he decided to keep on going, borrowed a jeep and a Tommy gun and jolted his way south into the bloody Jap-trap at Yenangyaung...
...diplomats of any nation have been more popular in the U.S. than slight, charming Hu Shih, China's foremost living scholar, China's Ambassador to the U.S. since 1938. Last week Chiang Kai-shek recalled Ambassador Hu, replaced him with Dr. Wei Tao-ming. The Gissimo...
...stationed in Washington. Between them, they might have seemed to be diplomatically irresistible. If China was not getting its due, the fault might lie with the U.S. rather than with the Chinese Embassy. Dr. Hu's friends hoped that one persistent Washington rumor was true: that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had a big job for Dr. Hu in China...
...addition we are sending as many copies of TIME as we can squeeze aboard the planes for our troops in Iceland, Australia, Africa and India. The Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru will get TIME next week in his prison at Poona -and TIME goes by air to Madame Chiang Kai-shek all the way across the world in Chungking...
...this was well and bitterly known to Lauchlin Currie when he faced Mme. Chiang Kai-shek and many another Chinese personage last week on Vice President H. H. Kung's lawn in Chungking. President Roosevelt had sent Dr. Currie to Chungking once before, in 1941, when Lend-Lease was a glowing promise. Now he was back, in the sixth and darkest year of China...