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...Yuan Kai-li was an ordinary laborer at Shanghai's Second Steel Mill until he was bitten by the Stakhanovite bug and started doing twice as much work as before. He was promptly elected Shanghai Model Worker. He was sent to a national congress of model workers, met Communist Boss Mao & Co., found himself a member of eight different committees...
Force of Destiny. As chief political adviser to General Joseph Stilwell, when Vinegar Joe was chief of staff to Chiang Kai-shek in 1942, Davies followed the line that Chiang's regime was hopelessly corrupt and doomed, that the Chinese Communists had "mass support" and were "the force destined to control China." Soldier Stilwell took the Davies position. In a 1944 memorandum, Davies wrote: "We should not now abandon Chiang Kai-shek . . . But we must be realistic. We must not indefinitely underwrite a politically bankrupt regime. And if the Russians are going to enter the Pacific war, we must...
...called "China Lobby." He had issued his lookout's cry once before, during the MacArthur hearing, when the Republicans were blasting the Administration's Far East policy. McMahon had countered with dark charges of the sinister efforts of a "China Lobby" to draw the U.S. into Chiang Kai-shek's camp...
...Urged U.S. support for a Chiang Kai-shek attack on the mainland...
...Require use of Chiang Kai-shek's forces...