Word: kaishek
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...need for all this huffing. Uncle Sam would never condemn people to starvation out of spite. Last week 14 Senators and ten Representatives banded together to press for bipartisan action. Among them was Minnesota's Representative Walter H. Judd, a courageous champion of China's Chiang Kaishek and a dead-aim critic of Nehru's foreign policy. And Wisconsin's raspingly 110% American, Senator Joe McCarthy, came out for feeding the Indians. This set the scene for the announcement that President Truman would shortly make a formal request for the grain...
...commanders are of peasant stock, Lin comes from China's bourgeoisie; his family ran a small textile mill in Hupei province. Lin got his early military training at Whampoa Academy, the Nationalist school set up with Soviet Russian help in the 1920s. One of his instructors was Chiang Kaishek. Between 1947 and 1949, Lin led his new Manchurian army southward to crush Chiang's forces at Mukden, Peking and Tientsin...
...wrote Reston, "Mr. Acheson is all for giving more help to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, insisting that military considerations must determine United States policy toward the future of Formosa, [and] conducting a policy of economic sanctions against the Peiping regime...
...Indo-China, the Malay Peninsula or the Near East. Get Britain and France to make the preponderant contributions of land forces for those areas "to compensate for their relative failure to help in the Korean struggle." ¶ Take all the allies to be found, including Tito, Franco and Chiang Kaishek. "They are not Democrats, but they are anti-Communists . . . Have no squeamishness from now on in taking associates whose records may be somewhat soiled." ¶ Tell the world our aims and intentions. "They are honorable and we should make them known." ¶ Step up mobilization at homemobilize...
...Chinese ambassador boasted to Indonesians that he had once been a teacher, a writer and a critic, and a secretary to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Last week Uncle Barhen's past seemed to be catching up with him. Indonesians had discovered that he was the same Wang Jen-shu who wrote a book in 1948 advocating the overthrow of the Indonesian government on the ground that it did not represent the people. President Soekarno's government has been rounding up copies of the book. It is waiting for the ambassador to make just one more boner before asking Uncle...