Word: kai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Hsueh Yo had been in tight spots. He had led the famous ist Division under Chiang Kai-shek in the northern march that unified China in the '20s. They had won against all the world's opposition, in the teeth of all the warlords. This week he is in a tight spot again, fighting again to hold his capital, to keep its rice for China...
...that the name, China, connotes--its soil and its people; its vast wastes and towering mountains; and its fight for freedom from Japan and the past. This saga of a nation struggling to be born, of a people trying to unite and find greatness is the story of Chiang Kai-Shek and the young Republic of China. It is also the story of war fought from Burma to Tibet and culminating in the bombing of Chunking. It has the guts that no other movie has and shows how terrible this war into which we soon...
...inevitable loss of freedom that goes with war will surely become necessary, we do not abandon our fight for a better, more truly democratic country to emerge when the struggle is finally over. The adoption of a dictatorship in this country, like those of Churchill in England and Chiang Kai-shek in China, will, we are convinced, be purely for the means of winning the war. That is the first objective. Until the war is won we can put into effect neither social aims nor peace programs...
...China, the internal equalization of surplus and deficit areas has been upset by war. In Chungking, which formerly drew its rice from battle-pocked Hunan via the Yangtze, black-market prices of rice were 30 times pre-war prices last spring. Last year, to make matters worse, Szechwan, Chiang Kai-shek's base province, had a crop failure. Its yield fell off almost 50%. To prevent hoarding, to make certain of Army and urban rice supplies, Chiang's Government this summer decided to collect the land tax in grain (almost exclusively rice), not money. With a better...
...navigation. 11 In a blackout rehearsal at Port Washington, L.I., Bernard M. Baruch and Herbert Bayard Swope directed traffic, Baroness Robert de Rothschild served as a chauffeur. // Betty Grable turned up in Manhattan with a sweater her publicity handlers swore was knitted for her by the R.A.F. // Mme. Chiang Kai-shek sent panda-hunters to Tibet to replace the Bronx Zoo's deceased Pandora. It is her gesture of thanks to United China Relief...