Word: kaishek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...March 21, 1943, Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell, Commander of the China-Burma-India Theater, Chief of Staff to Chiang Kaishek, wrote to his wife in Carmel, Calif. In the letter he enclosed the following verse...
Three days after his first arrival in Chungking, this was Stilwell's attitude toward his superior, Chiang Kaishek: "[Dinner at Chiang's] turned out to be a session of amateur tactics by Chiang Kaishek, backed up by a stooge staff general. Chiang Kai-shek gave me a long lecture on the situation and picked on Mandalay as the danger point. 'If the British run away, the Japs will get to Mandalay and crucify us.' I showed him the solution, but [the] stooge jumped in and made a long harangue about how right Chiang Kai-shek...
...months had passed since Nationalist forces seized Yenan, stronghold of North China's Communists (TIME, March 31). Yenan's fall promised better things to come. But U.S. leaders hemmed & hawed over aid to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek; inflation and political rivalries gnawed at the morale of his people. Gradually, the initiative passed back to the far-from-whipped Communist armies of Mao Tse-tung...
...Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. At no time in history has a man defended the liberties of so many with so little...
Among the historic heads were those of Wilson, F.D.R., Madame Chiang Kaishek, and Gandhi. ("What a dome," recalls Davidson, rubbing his stubby hands, "what a dome that Gandhi had!") The writers included Conrad, H. G. Wells, James Joyce, G. B. Shaw, D. H. Lawrence (whose thin, bearded face Davidson had made indomitable as a plow), Gertrude Stein, Sinclair Lewis, and 1947 Nobel Prizewinner André Gide, looking like a Roman Senator in marble. Helen Keller was portrayed with her thinking hands upraised. Charlie Chaplin's vain, subtle face bowed in a corner. Einstein's uncombed locks stood forever...