Word: kaishek
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...tour before settling down to his new job as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, received South Korea's 30-jewelled Order of Service Merit for his leadership of the U.S. Eighth Army during the Korean War. Taylor later flew into Taiwan for weekend talks with Chiang Kaishek. Vice President Lyndon Johnson, in Italy to complete his 17-day, six-nation tour of the Middle East and Europe, was treated to a huge ovation in Naples. "Viva Johnson! Viva America!" cried the throngs. "Viva Napoli!" bellowed the Vice President. When he discovered a group of Italians about...
...that case, what would happen to Chiang Kaishek...
...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...