Word: kai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...planes had been operated by Nationalist China's government-owned CNAC and CATC. As Communist armies overran the mainland, the lines retreated to Hong Kong's Kai Tak airfield. There, last November, most of their Chinese personnel declared allegiance to the Communists (TIME, Nov. 21) and shooed off Nationalist officials...
...Kai Tak airfield, exultant Chinese Communist mechanics painted Red flags on 71 fuselages...
...Acheson the problem of further aid to Formosa did not exist; the time was already past. Like China, argued the Secretary to the Congressmen, Formosa was all but lost, and to try to help Chiang Kai-shek on his final island bastion would jeopardize the whole U.S. stake in Asia...
Poetry came to Cheng's mind again as he and McNeil chain-smoked each other's cigarettes-the Chinese offering American Lucky Strikes from a woven-grass case. Between puffs, Cheng sadly recalled how once it was the Western fashion to praise Chiang Kai-shek and Nationalist China for resisting the Japanese. What was it Shakespeare's Mark Antony had said over murdered Caesar...