Word: kaishek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio hook-up with the U. S., the U. S.-educated Mme Chiang Kaishek, the Generalissimo's most trusted helper, claimed that Chinese resistance had virtually exhausted the Japanese, but asked that the Western nations declare "without delay" economic sanctions against Japan...
...temporary capital; last week he was reported about to become Japan's No. 1 puppet at Peking, seat of the North China Government. From Chungking to Peking these days is a longer distance ideologically than geographically, and the fact that Mr. Wang, elder revolutionary, onetime collaborator with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, one of the old "Big Three" in Chinese affairs,* has made the ideological as well as geographical trip was quite a victory for Japan's China diplomacy...
...murderers" were all but forgotten as the Japanese military made it clear that they were out to eliminate British, and possibly other, interests in China. Hereafter, a military spokesman at Tientsin said, Britain must be prepared to "cooperate" with Japan in the Far East, must drop her "pro-Chiang Kaishek" policy...
...arms between Japanese and Chinese since 1894. The Japanese, who aspire to rule the Far East as Britain has ruled Europe since Elizabeth's day, by fragmentation of the neighboring continent, had grown frightened of China's growing political unity and economic strength. Under Strong Man Chiang Kaishek, who the previous December had formed a tacit anti-Japanese front with the powerful Chinese Red Army, China was close to being an integrated nation-closer than at any time since the 18th Century, when the Manchus had ruled an empire that stretched from southern Burma to beyond Vladivostok. Moreover...
Ability of the Japanese Army to push the undeclared war to a declared victory depends to a considerable extent on their ability to catch and kill one man. That man is the smoky-eyed Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, symbol of the belated unification of China. For two years this perambulating symbol who travels fearlessly by plane over the mountains and deserts of his country has evaded capture from in front and assassination and bribery (old-Asiatic tools) from behind. Chiang is the needle in the greatest haystack in history...