Word: kais
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steps of a building, too exhausted to unstrap the baby she carried on her back. As she slept, clutching a beggar's cup in her hand, the picture she made was a picture of Nationalist China itself. Last week the bad news that poured into Chiang Kai-shek's tottering capital would have exhausted even the strongest...
Pound, who has just returned from conducting a survey of the administration of justice in Eastern China, praised Chiang Kai-shek for his firm support of the Chinese constitution, the report said...
...Chiang Kai-shek's troops will fight back, and the seat of government, when threatened, will withdraw south from Nanking to Shanghai, to Canton, even to Kunming if necessary, he is supposed to have said...
...press burst out with reports that U.S. marines were leaving their base at Tsingtao (where they had been training Chinese navy personnel). The report was quickly denied by Washington, but it was nonetheless true that plans had been made for their withdrawal. From all sides, pressure increased on Chiang Kai-shek to retire in favor of a Chinese leader more acceptable to the Communists...
...victorious Rhee government has proved little better than the tottering regime of Chiang Kai-shek. Grafting and inefficient, it has adopted police methods which border on "thought-control." Leftwing and labor groups are constantly threatened with persecution...