Word: kai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe to do otherwise is to build up the enemy," Walter Spencer Robertson, Virginia investment banker and China economic expert, built up unusual influence in six years (1953-59) as Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs. He advocated strong U.S. support for Nationalist China's Chiang Kai-shek and South Korea's Syngman Rhee while restraining them (in personal missions) from impulsive counterattacks, helped build the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, recommended U.S. support for Nationalist China's defense of the offshore Quemoy and Matsu islands. He outargued liberal critics who urged the recognition...
...when he was 47, Chennault went to China at Chiang Kai-shek's request to form an air force, after he had retired from the U.S. service and a losing battle, not unlike Billy Mitchell's, to show the true role of airpower in modern war. When war with Japan came, the Flying Tigers made up the only Allied air force in being in a critical battleground. Yet even after he had been put in command of a U.S. air force of his own and had won the rank of general, he was still treated as a crackpot...
...anxiety over the loss of these two statesmen may prove valuable if it succeeds in bringing out the diplomatic leadership potential in the West. Dulles and Adenauer-not to mention Chiang Kai-shek and DeGaulle-can not be expected to stay around forever. Already the British press is rejoicing over the removal of one source of opposition to Macmillan's policies, and it is probable that a general "softening up" of diplomatic tactics will occur, whether or not the West's basic position remains inflexible...
CHEN DUMPS AMERICANS WITH ONE JERK, trumpeted the headline in Hong Kong's Communist Wen Hui Pao last week. AMERICANS POWERLESS TO THREATEN CHEN CHING-KAI. Occasion for the rejoicing was a weight-lifting meet in Moscow, in which Red China's little (127 lbs.) Chen hoisted 326¼ lbs. in the clean-and-jerk to shatter the world featherweight record held by the U.S.'s Isaac Berger...
Simultaneously with his statement that the revolt was spreading, President Chiang Kai-shek offered Tibet independence if the Chinese Nationalists regain control of the China mainland...