Word: kaishek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprised when the Communists rejected the truce. Chiang Kaishek, more than ever convinced by recent victories that he can defeat the Communists in the field, did not expect a Red yes to his proposal. He did hope that his national unity gesture would lure some of the minuscule parties of the wavering Democratic League into the Assembly sessions, thus reduce the appearance of one-party rule in China...
...tiny, sun-warmed island in Wusih's Lake Tai Hu, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek celebrated his 60th birthday with his wife and friends. He said it was the happiest day he had spent in ten years, unmarred even by the clatter and stink of the small steamboat originally chartered to pull the picnic barge to the island...
Lady Cripps. head of the British United Aid to China Fund, reached Nanking with her young daughter last week, bringing British good will, good works and goods, including a 24-piece dessert service for Madame Chiang Kaishek, and a 40-piece porcelain tea service for Madame Sun Yatsen. The Chinese responded with an enthusiastic welcome, including a poem in her honor by Ambassador to Britain Cheng Tien...
Kalgan, the show place of what Chinese Communists call their "new democracy," girded for battle. As Government armies converged on the arsenal city, its Communist occupants announced: 1) a purge of "criminal secret agents of Chiang Kaishek" who had plotted a "big military insurrection"; 2) "a fervent and indignant wave" of defense construction; 3) "emancipation of prostitutes...
...Destiny of China, by Chiang Kaishek...