Word: kaishek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chinese say that when the three Soong sisters, who do not agree about politics, finally come together, it means big news, either good or bad. All three - Mesdames Chiang Kaishek. H. H. Kung, Sun Yat-sen - were in Hong Kong to welcome Currie, and give him, after an 11,183 -mile flight, a "washing dust" reception - a most courteous ceremony, reserved for distinguished visitors who are theoretically tired and dusty after a long journey. Thereafter, honors and interviews; two weekends with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek at his mountain hideaway; inspection of an aviation training school, where a Chinese band ground...
...threats was the first. The romantic roller coaster of the Burma Road is China's best-publicized and most spectacular lifeline, but it is desperately vulnerable to air attack. Because a single lucky or well-aimed bomb can back up several days' traffic in no time, Chiang Kaishek's Government has in recent months depended increasingly on the flow of goods through Kwangtung Province, southernmost in China...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Hermann Kriebel, 65, participant in Adolf Hitler's beerhall Putsch of 1923, onetime chief military adviser to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, member of Germany's 1919 Armistice Commission; in Munich. His farewell to the Allied Armistice Commission: "See you again in 20 years...
...Chinese generals who hate & fear the Communists and are jealous of the publicity given to the Fourth and Eighth Route Armies. But it was no victory for China. What has kept the Communists fighting for Chiang is the fact that they fear Japan more than they fear Chiang Kaishek. If Japan (or Russia) could convince the Communists that they have less to fear from Japan (or Russia) than from Chiang Kaishek, China's jig would...
...Japan. He looks like an old-fashioned Chinese scholar, but has the exaggerated manners of a Japanese corporal. He has turned his political coat so often that it looks threadbare even in Nanking. He started out a Communist. In 1927 he was converted to the following of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. In 1928 he wrote a book on China's Hero Sun Yatsen, which Chinese now sneer at as his "knocking brick'' (Chinese used to knock on doors with a small brick; in this case, Mr. Chou was knocking at the door of politics...