Word: kaishek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dressed up in pidgin English and put in the innocent mouth of old Kung Fu-tze (Confucius). Most of the people who parroted "Confucius say" did not know that one of China's most distinguished statesmen. Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung, brother-in-law of Madame Chiang Kaishek, is a 75th-generation direct descendant of the great philosopher. Nor did they know the whereabouts of Dr. Kung's handsome, shy, studious, English-speaking, 23-year-old son David ("Prince David"). The latter was something almost no one knew. He had disappeared...
...takes two to conclude any peace not imposed by over whelming victory. Aside from military and economic near-failure, main impediment to Japan in concluding the war in China has been Japan's own refusal to deal with the only authoritative representative of the Chinese people-Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Last week Japan's new Cabinet hit upon an Oriental device to deal with Chiang, yet seem...
Well might Chungking gloat. For the first time, a recognized Japanese spokesman had suggested peace to Chiang Kaishek. Japan's Army has always insisted that Chiang had to go before it would even talk about peace. The Navy, arguing that it would be folly to conclude a nominal peace affecting only the occupied areas, has favored going straight to the Generalissimo. Japan's new Premier, Mitsumasa Yonai, is Commander in Chief of the Navy. It looked last week as though some day the right men in Japan might get talking with the right men in China...
...last two years Lanchow has meant even more to the "Free China" of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. It is the eastern terminus for the much-needed war supplies that come from the Soviet Union. Instead of the wool, fur, brick tea, vegetable oil and camel hair that used to be the lifeblood of Lanchow's trade, now airplane engines, bombs, ammunition, gasoline, military trucks are the chief commodities. The city is also the concentration point for China's slowly building Air Force. So important a military secret has Lanchow become in the scheme of war that in two years...