Word: kaishek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, Method ist, had the delegates in to tea, praised the work of missionaries in China...
Each time Gerald Nye belittled United Nations strategy, postwar planning, Roosevelt, Willkie, Churchill, Stalin, or Chiang Kaishek, the catcalls and clapping rocked the chandeliers, quivered against the black-and-jade glass murals...
...political. Political pressure he has exerted through puppets. The shadow regime of Henry Pu Yi set Manchurian Chinese apart from their southern countrymen. Similarly the regime of suave Wang Ching-wei, Japan's No. 1 puppet since March 1940, was designed to wean Chinese from allegiance to Chiang Kaishek. For three years the Mikado's generals stupidly sought to give Traitor Wang "face" without a pretense of authority. Chinese derided the puppet premier as "the prisoner of Nanking." Now the Jap has turned to a policy of blandishment. On paper he has granted Nanking breathtaking political and economic...
...done in the Far East. It was therefore significant that Field Marshal Sir Archibald P. Wavell, Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell and Major General Claire L. Chennault had been called in from India and China to join the discussions. Last week, Winston Churchill sent Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek a message which could be taken as the first fruit of the Washington conference: ". . . The United Nations . . . will surely drive the Japanese invader from the soil of China." President Roosevelt, in a similar message, expressed the hope that the offensive would be launched "in the very near future...
...next chosen assignment ("My ambition is to get to Berlin"). Behind him were Australia, the Solomons, a torpedoed aircraft carrier and a book (They Call It Pacific). Ahead was a projected itinerary that most reporters dream about. Lee hopes some day to roll into Nanking with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, into Manila with General Douglas MacArthur, and down the main street of Tokyo with Admiral Halsey and his sailors, Major General Vandegrift and his marines, under a blanket of U.S. planes "so thick that they hide the rising...