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...time, Kung has been seriously ill with kidney trouble, in the U.S. To succeed Kung, the Generalissimo appointed scholarly Dr. Wong Wen-hao, boss of China's WPB. Dr. Kung retained his post as the Generalissimo's personal representative to the President of the United States. Chiang Kaishek, his position buttressed by two popular appointments, remained as head of the Government...
...talk with Marshal Joseph Stalin. One probable subject of conversation: Chungking's (and Russia's) relations with the Chinese Communists at Yenan. A lessening of China's internal struggle would please practically everybody. But it seemed unlikely that Premier Soong, any more than Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, would compromise on the basic issue which has shattered all efforts at agreement between the Communists and the Chinese Government-Yenan's insistence that it be permitted to maintain an independent army...
Marching through Berlin. Five years later Lieut. Wedemeyer was sent out to the 15th Infantry at Tientsin, China. The vast, stirring nation, slowly shaping from revolutionary chaos into a modern nation under the hand of young Chiang Kaishek, fascinated the U.S. officer. He studied Chinese. But Wedemeyer turned down a chance for a career in the China service. In 1934 he was back...
...hurried to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. The Ministry of Finance was ordered to conduct an immediate inquiry. "We decided on this measure," said T.V.. "because, at the slightest suspicion of corruption in the Government, immediate and thorough investigation and punishment should follow. This could only result in strengthening . . . the authority of the Government . . . enhance the confidence of the people...
...Chungking. Dawn poked through the chill Yangtze mist. Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, ever an early riser, was at breakfast when an aide brought him the news. He left his food untasted, withdrew for meditation. Hours later he sent his thoughts to Mrs. Roosevelt: "I am deeply grieved. . . . The profound sorrow of the Chinese people . . . the deep sense of gratitude they bear for him. . . . His name will be a beacon of light to humanity...