Word: kaishek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hero who led invasion fleets against Sicily and Normandy, Kirk also proved himself an able diplomat as Ambassador to Moscow from 1949 to 1952. His selection for the post in Taipei ended a long search for a man who was respected by Administration officials, by outspoken supporters of Chiang Kaishek, and by Chiang himself...
...Communist mainland, there was ample indication of the economic crisis cited by Chiang Kaishek, but almost no information about what the Reds were doing about it. China's rubber-stamp parliament, the National People's Congress, met last week in Peking's crimson-carpeted, air-conditioned Great Hall for the first time in two years, but unlike previous sessions, no foreign diplomats or correspondents were permitted inside...
During his first 20 years as a teacher, mostly at Peking National University, Hu Shih sharply attacked the one-party government of Chiang Kaishek, but when the choice had to be made between the Chinese Communists and the Nationalists, the philosopher and the Generalissimo were reconciled. In debate at the United Nations and on lecture platforms everywhere, Hu Shih spoke boldly and forcefully against Red tyranny. Frequent ill health inclined Hu Shih to nine years of scholarly retirement in New York and Princeton, but in 1958 he again returned to Formosa to serve as president of the Academia Sinica, Nationalist...
...Chinese, they were growing even more outspoken against Khrushchev; in Hong Kong the pro-Communist newspaper Ching Po found him even worse than Chiang Kaishek: "He decks himself out in satellites, spaceships and supernuclear bombs. He resorts to pinning the 'personality cult' label on the two leaders [Stalin and Hoxha], thereby subjecting himself to ridicule by the Western bloc...
...Nationalist island of Formosa last week, there was a march past of 11,000 troops while 160 jet fighters roared overhead. A dozen Nationalist frogmen swam ashore on the uninhabited Red Chinese island of Pinglangyu and planted Nationalist flags on the beach. In Taipei, Nationalist President Chiang Kaishek declared that conditions on the mainland resembled those of 1911, "when even the officers and men of the Manchu 'new army' were longing for the great day that was soon to dawn." With stubborn, visionary optimism, Chiang predicted large-scale uprisings soon in Red China, and promised that he would...