Word: kaishek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of the implications of these five propositions, there is no serious move in Washington to reverse the December Formosa decision. Any effort to revive the issue gets lost in the old argument about whether the U.S. can cooperate with Chiang Kaishek. Chiang said last week that he would be willing to see General MacArthur assume responsibility for the integrity of Formosa. If the U.S. through MacArthur did assume responsibility, such questions as Chiang's personality would recede into proper perspective. Formosa could then be weighed in terms of future peril to the free world rather than in terms...
...word for it. Born in China, the son of a missionary who later became moderator of the United Church in Canada, Endicott spent most of his youth close to the church. After twelve years as a China missionary, Endicott became an adviser on social-welfare problems to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Like many another Westerner, he was shocked by the poverty and corruption he saw in China, but his disillusionment ran deeper than most. He came back to Canada in 1947, highly critical of the Chiang government and full of praise for its Communist enemies...
Owen Lattimore was perhaps the best brain, and certainly the best pen, in a group of experts, educators and diplomats-both in & out of the State Department-who strongly influenced U.S. policy in Asia. Specifically, this group consistently opposed U.S. aid to Nationalist China and Chiang Kaishek, whom Lattimore regards as the No. 1 enemy of progress in Asia. In his twelve books (The Mongols of Manchuria, America and Asia, The Situation in Asia, etc.), Lattimore has offered the U.S. a lot of advice on how to win friends in the Far East. One of his opinions, preached steadily...
...wrote ten books on the Far East, as early as 1932 propounded the theory that who held Manchuria held China. In 1941 he became personal political adviser and expediter of U.S. aid to Chiang Kaishek, was appointed Pacific director...
...Chungking last November, Acting President Li Tsung-jen did not go with them. Instead, Li took a plane to Hong Kong, announced he would enter a hospital for treatment of an old stomach ailment. Ever since then, Nationalist China's fight against Communism has been directed by Chiang Kaishek, who came out of retirement to take over unofficially in Li's absence...