Word: kai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Progress. Chiang Kai-shek's 300-odd divisions-3,000,000 soldiers facing Japan's estimated 800,000 (30 or more divisions) on the 2,000-mile China front -believed that the Japanese could do no more against them than they had been doing. Only if Japan chose to throw in another 20 or 30 divisions was there more than a remote possibility of Chinese defeat. And those divisions seemed earmarked for another purpose: the invasion of eastern Siberia...
...through Szechwan Province last week the squealing of unoiled wheelbarrows made sensitive eardrums quiver. Rice was wheeling in-tons of rice in dust-coated, round, bulging sacks. In the ears of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek the sound was a screech of victory. It meant that Szechwan, Chungking's Province, at last...
When Hankow fell three years ago the warlords grudgingly permitted Chiang Kai-shek to establish his national capital at Chungking in their Province. Chungking's first big bombing in May 1939 gave Chiang an excuse to establish control of that city and eastern Szechwan. Gradually he brought his own armies into the Province, thrust his appointees into provincial posts. He forced the warlords to send troops to the front, while his own men cracked down on opium bootlegging, main source of the corrupt warlords' revenue. By last year Chiang was so firmly in control that he could install...
...warlords still opposed Chiang. During their 30 years of rule they had seized and bought the best lands. As landlords they controlled the marketable rice on which the cities and armies of Chiang Kai-shek depended. They collected their rents in rice, but paid land taxes in inflated money. They hoarded the rice, which helped to force prices higher while men went hungry...
...over China, fed his sweltering delegates lemon pop, tea, cake, pastry, explained the law, sent them home. All summer from dawn to midnight, in Chungking's offices and dugouts, Kung's bomb-battered underlings pieced together the machinery of China's greatest reform in centuries. Chiang Kai-shek quietly increased the local gendarmes all through Szechwan, just in case there was trouble...