Word: kais
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retreating Chinese Communists, leaving behind their legendary capital, Yenan, filtered northward to other centers of Red strength. Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist troops, commanded by stocky, dependable General Hu Tsung-nan, marched in, took down the huge poster of Communist Chieftain Mao Tse-tung flapping by the south gate, raised the twelve-rayed sun flag of the Government. After ten years, Yenan ("Permanent Peace") had fallen...
...country in the world. Many a paragraph in it clawed crabwise before the winds of political expediency. It left a lot of questions unanswered (example: Why was it right for the U.S. to fight Communists' efforts to enter the Greek Government when it had lately been urging Chiang Kai-shek to take Communists into the Chinese Government?). Nevertheless, the total purport of the message was clear to the world: the U.S., realizing (however dimly and belatedly) that it was engaged in a deadly struggle with Communism (see below), had begun a positive effort to organize a non-Communist world...
...Chiang Kai-shek sent word to Brother-in-Law Soong...
China's monetary crisis last weekend inspired an excited Associated Press cable from Shanghai: "An American consular announcement today blasted Chinese Premier T. V. Soong's abortive 100% export subsidy program, as Chinese currency continued its dizzy descent, and the complete economic collapse of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist China appeared to be a very real possibility...
...reform, the State Department can set out on the lone path leading out of the Chinese political jungle. "Thunder Out of China" is a revolutionary document but it advocates that type of revolution-by-consent that holds the last hope for the future of China, with or without Chiang Kai Shek...