Word: kai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope we can cooperate against aggression. The Japs also gave us sweet words, but brought hell, rape, looting, death-chill death, barbaric death." These were the desperate words of warning with which Chiang Kai-shek hoped to cash in on India's potential fighting population of 352 million natives, on his visit to New Delhi last week. But Chiang did not suspect that the spirit of Kipling would frustrate all his appeals. He did not know that Pandit Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi's successor as Chairman of the Indian National Congress and symbol of India's nationalist movement, had spent...
This second World War is a war of politics as well as military strategy. The related stories of the Fall of Singapore and Life in the Raffles Hotel have knocked the props out of the white man's prestige in the whole of Asia. Chiang Kai-shek tried to make up for that loss of prestige by instilling fear of Jap invasion in the heart of India, and he was answered by an argument for passive resistance...
...Sent word to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek that Congress had unanimously approved a $500,000,000 loan to China. Mr. Roosevelt congratulated the Gissimo on "the gallant resistance of the Chinese armies...
...under twelve leaders sent from Chungking. Truckloads of khaki-clad Chinese Communists rode to battle singing and saluting with clenched fists-a salute which on one occasion was answered by a grinning policeman, whose main job for several years had been the rounding up of Communists. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek sent his countrymen in Singapore a message: "Victory of the Allies means our victory...
...Daddy") Rung. Seldom has even a horse-&-buggy doctor operated under such harassments as the coolie-&-ricksha society of bomb-torn Chungking has imposed on aristocratic Dr. Kung, 75th descendant of Confucius. An active ingredient of the inflation has been lack of confidence in the finances of the Chiang Kai-shek Government. Some of his henchmen have been accused of worse things than incompetency. And so a large measure of the responsibility in turning the U.S. and British loans to good uses will rest on the shoulders of the Generalissimo's loyal Dr. Kung...