Word: kaishek
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...REPORTS (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Both Nationalist China's and Red China's positions in the world are assessed by India's Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri, Nationalist China's President and Madame Chiang Kaishek, Pakistan's President Ayub Khan, Britain's new Prime Minister Harold Wilson and other leaders...
...already a master of French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Latin. Sanskrit and Spanish, he took up Chinese in order to reorganize Nationalist China's judicial system. When the Communists took over the mainland before he could finish, Pound lambasted the State Department for having abandoned Chiang Kaishek...
...pulled into Colombo last week, it was clear that he had taken advance precautions to ease his confrontation with the formidable first lady. Included in his entourage for the first time was Soong Ching-ling, widow of Dr. Sun Yatsen, founder of modern China, and sister of Mme. Chiang Kaishek. A rheumatic lady of 74, Soong Ching-ling fell out with her family during China's civil war, stayed on the mainland after the Communist takeover, won a Stalin Peace Prize in 1951, now lives in relative obscurity in Shanghai. Cheerfully, she waved at the crowds in Colombo, joined...
...Chiang Kaishek, who "tried to channel the flood" after World War II but failed "when the Americans withdrew the direct support of their forces." That, presumably, was for the benefit of the U.S.-supported South Vietnamese. Next was Russia's turn: "The Kremlin counted on keeping China in its power and, by this, dominating Asia. But such illusions were dissipated" as a conflict arose between "Russia, which holds and which keeps, and China, which needs to grow and to take...
...Dinh Nhu and her family. I wish to remind those who vilified her late husband and brother-in-law that they were perhaps far less guilty than those who set themselves up as their judges. Put them beside a Khrushchev, a Tito, or even a Chiang Kaishek, and they were like innocent lambs. May God grant them eternal rest...