Word: kaishek
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...Intrigue. Nationalist China reached to Washington to make its charge. The accused: Lieut. General Mao Pang-chu, 47, a fellow villager (Fenghua in Chekiang province) of Chiang Kaishek, stationed in the U.S. since 1943 as chief of his government's aviation procurement. The accusation: in the past five years, Mao 1) failed to account for almost $20 million in aviation procurement funds placed at his disposal, 2) protected disloyal staffmen and 3) spread rumors undermining the prestige of Nationalist China...
Could Churchill and Chiang Kaishek, in a similar manner, have armed Stalin with a legal claim to the Alaskan port of Nome and control of the Seward-Fairbanks railway...
...been suspected last week of acting like a candidate. The governor announced that he would set off this month (after getting briefed by General MacArthur) for the Korean fighting front and would also visit Japan, Indo-China, Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand and Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
...rock. "That mountain cat was tough," grinned Kan, "but no match for that rock." His audience rocked and rolled with laughter, for in Chinese the word for cat sounds very much like Mao (as in Mao Tse-tung) and the word for rock is shek, as in Chiang Kaishek. The old storyteller was plainly back in form again. But the tiger of Peking was not amused...
...smooth talk and persuasive manner captured a fighting force of 150,000 men right out of the Nationalist fold. This was the army of the "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang, whom Chou converted thoroughly to the Communist cause. In a daring coup, the Young Marshal kidnaped Chiang Kaishek, hoping thereby to put a stop to the fighting. Chiang's eventual release, engineered with typical tact by Chou on orders from Moscow, resulted in one more marriage of convenience between the Nationalists and Communists in their common fight against Japan, gave the Communists a valuable breathing space in which...