Word: kais
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...address of our office-residence is #3 Shih Tze-kai (Crossroad). It is a six-room greybrick bungalow, with an attic, garage and shanty-like servants' quarters. It has bamboo-fenced grounds, which were given over to neighborhood pigs, fowl and scabby babies. It had been occupied by the Japanese for eight years, and neglected for eight years. Consequently, it was in an absolutely revolting state of disrepair: no furniture, tat ami (raised floors) everywhere, brokendown plumbing and lighting, filth, filth and more filth...
...Number 3 Shih Tze-kai will be an office as well as a home in one of the world's important capitals. TIME-LIFE could never cover Chinese politics adequately from Shanghai. Nor is commuting between Shanghai and Nanking practical. Regular riding in casual Chinese planes sooner or later would be fatal; the best train takes seven to eight hours one way; the auto highway is still impassable because of broken bridges and potholes...
...looked as if France's Georges Bidault, as leader of Europe's only strong new political movement, Christian socialism, might be 1946's man; but as the year ended and the Fourth French Republic began, Bidault was out of office (and apartment hunting). In China Chiang Kai-shek gained ground on two fronts: he beat the Communists in the field and sponsored a constitutional assembly which worked through democratic process to China's first constitution (see FOREIGN NEWS). Chiang, however, still had far to go toward unifying and rehabilitating his country...
...position, to bring TIME Inc. all information about the first life of Chiang Kai-Shek; his certifikate of baptism and photo of his family house...
Although he has been meticulously careful to avoid any appearance of Kuomintang pressure on Assembly delegates, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was in the greatest hurry of all. Before General of the Army George C. Marshall left for home, the Gissimo hoped to have for him full assurances of the Government's democratic intentions. An approved constitution, embodying the liberalizing decisions of the Political Consultation Conference, would be the best assurance...