Word: kai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that house is the Chinese Military Mission sent by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to help the U.S. plan and coordinate campaigns in the Far East. Head of the mission is General Hsiung Shih-hui, a quick-witted, rugged, battlewise soldier. One of its members is Peter Chuh, the Gissimo's nephew. Several of them speak as well as fight Japanese. Most of the members have known the Japanese intimately in battle-for five years past...
Such is Chiang Kai-shek's customary impetus. He united China once, by conquering it. Starting in the late '203 with nothing but a fledgling military academyand an incandescent spirit, he gradually subdued the selfish and the local men, the provincial brigands, the warlords, the fractious cliques, the Communists. In cam paign and persuasion he forced or con verted the Chinese into a nation...
...except for the handful of A.V.G.s with obsolescent planes, no U.S. fighters or bombers are operating from China. Like Winston Churchill, Chiang Kai-shek has repeatedly said, in effect: "Give us the tools and we will finish the job." But, unlike Churchill, Chiang has still to get the tools in any quantity that counts...
From China, with footslogging infantry troops and all the rolling forces he could spare, Chiang Kai-shek moved south to meet them. Chiang threw another force into Burma far to the east, by fierce battling kept the Jap on the west side of the turgid Salween River...
JAPAN: A WORLD PROBLEM-H. J. Timperley-John Day ($1.75). Chiang Kai-shek's Australian adviser traces the evidences of "paranoia nipponica" from early times to the China Incident...