Word: kaishek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though inviting Joseph Stalin to the recent Roosevelt-Churchill conference Africa and not inviting Chaing-KaiShek may have sound military and political motives, that neglect of China is merely the latest example of the Anglo American attitude toward helping our allies in the Far East, according to Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter, of the Harvard Bureau of International Research...
...enclosure of a Casablanca hotel surrounded by barbed wire and bristling guards, they conferred, discussed, mulled over their problems. They were in close touch with Russia's Joseph Stalin, who was too busy with war on his own soil to join them, with China's Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. They brought together, for the first time, the two leading figures in the tangled French political situation: Fighting French General Charles de Gaulle and General Henri Honore Giraud, High Commissioner of French Africa...
...instance, there has been a trend recently toward what is called 'leadership' -but what is really nothing more than the idolization of individual men. ... In Russia there is Joseph Stalin; in China, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek; in Britain, Winston Churchill; in the United States, Franklin Roosevelt. . . . They deserve the high positions they have won. And yet, dare we say that any one of them is indispensable? The moment we say that our world must change...
...thought of General Chennault's Christmas greeting to Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kaishek: "On this sixth wartime Christmas the China Air Task Force joins me in extending to Your Excellencies and our comrades in arms, the Chinese Army, our sincerest holiday greetings at this period of the year when all men gather to do honor to the Prince of Peace. The fighters and bombers of the American Air Forces in China pledge themselves in His name to keep faith and comradeship until they have brought peace to this land and to all free men everywhere...
...Department order which would have stopped all scientific compendia. Finally, after approving the Aerosphere's text (and deleting much recent data which manufacturers had offered), the War Department ordered 300 copies. Publisher Thorp intends to present copies to the Chinese, British and Russian Embassies for forwarding to Chiang Kaishek, Churchill and Stalin. Other foreigners who order copies must be approved...