Word: kaishek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always hoped) to include other nations later on. But a grand flotilla of allies must travel at the speed of the slowest ship in the convoy. The old-fashioned solution would be to make hard-and-fast arrangements-separately or in small groupings-with Syngman Rhee, with Chiang Kaishek, with Ramon Magsaysay, with Mohammed...
Shih, a stout anti-Communist and longtime supporter of Chiang Kaishek, has himself long been an open critic of the Kuomintang...
Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, durable ally of the U.S., last week began his second six-year term as President of Nationalist China. For his inaugural address in Taipei he wore a ceremonial long gown; a crowd of 50,000 cheered him and broke police lines. His hearers included some 160 members of the Taipei diplomatic corps...
Much of what the Communists have wrought in China was begun before them by the revolution of Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kaishek; the Communists simply stole the revolution by deceit and mutiny while the country struggled against Japan. That power could not have been won without the carefully measured direction, aid and comfort of Communist Russia. The Communist rise in China might have been forestalled by wiser, firmer policies of China's Western friends. But what was relevant to the rest of the world last week was that China's Communists had been able to assemble...
...West might make behind their backs? At home, the management was frustrated by a lack of demand for their services, and fearful of their aging equipment and personnel. Time was running out, warned Premier Chen Cheng, newly designated nominee for vice president, and heir-designate to President Chiang Kaishek: "If we wait another three to five years [to counterattack the mainland], our chances of success will diminish to almost nothing." Furthermore, "the enemy will be encouraged to attack...