Word: kaishek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chiang Kaishek, for his valiant efforts to preserve that immense piece of humanity...
...Communist China south of the Yangtze could not expect permanent peace with the Communist north. And it could not survive if the U.S. pursued toward it the same frigid policy that had helped ruin Chiang Kaishek. A free south China, however, would give Washington another chance to develop a positive policy before all Asia was lost...
...nothing to say about a communication he had had from Chiang Kaishek. All but about $13 million of the $125 million Congress had appropriated for Chinese military aid had been spent, he said. He saw no point in calling a session of the "do-nothing" 80th Congress to act in the emergency...
Marshall: If the present [Chiang Kaishek] government falls, the Communists will take power north of the Yangtze River...
Died. General Feng Yu-hsiang, 67, China's gargantuan (6 ft. 4 in., 270 lbs.) "Christian General," as he was sailing back to China "to help overthrow" Chiang Kaishek; in a fire aboard the Russian motorship Pobeda, in the Black Sea. An up-from-the-ranks peasant soldier, Feng participated in Dr. Sun Yat-sen's 1911 coup against the Manchus, reputedly baptized his troops with a garden hose after he became a Methodist in 1913. His quick-change loyalties led him to support and then betray Chiang at least four times...