Word: kaishek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...educator in China, Dr. Stuart traveled the country far & wide, stayed aloof from China's politics, met and endeared himself to Chinese of every stripe. More important, he came to be well known and trusted by Chiang Kaishek, Madame Chiang, Premier T. V. Soong and Communist negotiator Chou En-lai (some of Communist Yenan's leaders are Yenching graduates...
George VI of England became the first British monarch to crash Chicago-published Who's Who in America. Among 8,918 other newcomers to the 1946-47 edition: Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, Chiang Kaishek, Charles de Gaulle. Longest entry: International Business Machines Corp. President Thomas J. Watson's 155 lines, an alltime record. Baby of the book: nine-year-old Cinemoppet Margaret O'Brien. Missing: many generals and admirals, who had had two editions (1942-45) of glory...
Lionel ("Old Man") Pratt, the hostel's oldest veteran, had come to China when the Sino-Japanese war (1895) was still big news. The Government had made him secretary-adviser to Madame Chiang Kaishek. Whenever Old China Hand Pratt talked about "the war," newsmen often suspected that he meant the war of 50 years...
...good friend, in gratitude," from Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kaishek...
...General Chang Chun, the Government's progressive-minded governor of Szechwan. There was a variation in this setup during the conference on military reorganization. Then Marshall sat only as adviser. General Chou spoke for the Communists; General Chang Chih-chung, onetime aide-de-camp to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, carried on for the Government...