Word: kaies
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek gave him a dinner and the Order of Blue Sky and White Sun. Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, commander of U.S. forces in China, gave him an Oak Leaf Cluster for his Distinguished Service Medal. In mass tribute, 163 grateful Chinese organizations gave him 500,000 Chinese dollars ($12,500 U.S.), a gold key to Chungking, an embroidered umbrella, a souvenir book and a scroll...
...Long? An important question was how long the Potsdam offer would remain open. President Truman, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and former Prime Minister Churchill had said: "We shall brook no delay." Did this mean that the terms, if not accepted by a definite date, would be replaced by harsher ones? An informed guess: they hold good until invasion forces actually move against what is left of Japan...
...Chiang Kai-shek read it in Chungking and approved it. Winston Churchill worked on it and signed it in Potsdam while he was still Prime Minister; Clement Attlee, prudently included in the early Potsdam meetings, approved it before he had any authority to sign it. Joseph Stalin, nominally neutral in the Pacific war, did not sign the declaration, but he undoubtedly gave it a look...
Over luncheon bowls in Chungking last week, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek chatted with Yank's Sergeant Walter E. Peters, and answered an important question...
...years she was in the news almost daily. When she made a triumphal tour of the U.S., millions came to see & hear her. A year ago, ill and exhausted, she retired from public life, 10,000 miles from her homeland. Last week Mme. Chiang Kai-shek was nearing the end of her retirement, and looking forward...