Word: kaishek
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...after his arrival, General Wainwright was decorated with the Distinguished Service Cross, entertained by Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. From his old commander, General Douglas MacArthur, came a heartwarming invitation to attend the surrender of the Japanese Empire...
...Japanese prepared to lay down their arms in China, Yenan crackled with defiance. Communist Commander in Chief Chu Teh roughly rejected the nominal authority of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. To Chungking he wired: your order not to take independent action in accepting Japanese surrender (TIME, Aug. 20) "does not conform to the national interest. . . . You have issued the wrong order, very wrong, indeed, and we have to reject it resolutely...
Cried Radio Yenan: "Chiang Kaishek, the Fascist chieftain . . . whose policy has been to sit aside and watch others fight . . . really has no right to accept a Japanese surrender. . . . Reactionary . . . stupid . . . sinister plot ... to instigate civil...
Political Deterioration. Then there is political deterioration. In any country the "outs" want to get in, and, when the "ins" have almost nothing but defeats to show, the outs inevitably increase their opposition. The surprising thing is not that there has been and is opposition in China to Chiang Kaishek. The miracle is that after seven years of almost unending defeats he still has the confidence of an overwhelming majority of the Chinese people, that he is still in the ring-a little wobbly, to be sure...
...ferret-eyed Henry J. Taylor, Scripps-Howard's hopabout journalist who rarely stays in any one country long enough for a second breath, or a second thought. Within 48 hours of reaching Chungking, he had seen Chiang Kai-shek and was breathlessly cabling home: "Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, in an exclusive interview today, promised to ease Chinese censorship regulations on news going to the United States. ... I told him that there was increasing uneasiness in America because of the tight censorship. . . . Chiang said he welcomed such a frank complaint...