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...10/10 (Oct. 10), the Revolution was 32 years old, and in Government House Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was taking the oath as President of the Republic of China. The people surged through the mud and drizzle to stare at the ban ners, the red posters, the lanterns, the brightly colored electric lights. In the gorge below the bleak, steeply terraced city, a gunboat barked 21 times...
...with U.S., Chinese and British officers. Next day arrived Lieut. General Brehon Somervell, chief of the U.S. Army Service Forces, and Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell, U.S. commander in the China-Burma-India theater. From New Delhi Lord Louis planned a trip to Chungking to talk over with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek the big and vital job of reopening an overland path to China...
Magic Carpet. In a four-motor Liberator-type transport, the junketing Senators flew to the British Isles, to Casablanca, to Marrakech, Cairo, Basra and Calcutta, to Chungking (where they met China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek), to Australia, Guadalcanal (three days), and homeward via New Caledonia, the Fiji Islands, Honolulu and San Francisco...
...guide the Kuomintang listened to the words of their leader. The harsh voice of the Generalissimo was unusually clipped, metallic. Chiang Kai-shek told the 150 solemn faces before him that the days of one-party administration in China were nearly over. It was time, he said, to take the third of Sun Yat-sen's three steps: from the era of political tutelage (under the Kuomintang) to the era of constitutional democracy. Then all political parties should have equal rights and the Kuomintang should no longer enjoy special privileges before...
...christened Chung Cheng and Chung Shan, the formal names of Chiang Kai-shek and Sun Yatsen...