Word: kaishek
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...Chungking, whence he flew fortnight ago with a staff of 13 production experts, ex-WPBoss Donald Nelson was busy setting up a WPB for Chiang Kaishek. Every few days he took time out from his labors to issue enthusiastic bulletins: he had not struck a single snag so far; his goal is to double China's war production in six months. Finally he just came right out and said flatly: "This will be the best mission that ever came to China...
Another disciple was a reserved, willowy young man named Chiang Kaishek. After Dr. Sun's death (1925), Wang and Chiang were two of a triumvirate* who inherited the direction of China's revolution. But it was an uneasy partnership. Chiang was a soldier, Wang an intellectual. Chiang inclined to the middle way; Wang was now a leftist, now a rightist. When Chiang drove the Chinese Communists and their Russian advisers out of the Kuomintang and China, Wang again went abroad to rest up and intrigue. Later he made peace with Chiang, returned to China to become president...
Wang suffered another crisis after Japan began the "China incident" (1937). First an ardent advocate of Chinese resistance, he later changed his mind, plumped for a "peaceful settlement" with Japan. One day, while still chairman of the central political council and second in command to Chiang Kaishek, he slipped away from Chungking to Nanking. Japan, looking fora puppet, grabbed him eagerly, made him premier and president of the Axis-recognized Nanking government. For this crowning act of apostasy the Chinese erected in Chungking a life-size statue of Wang, naked and grovelling, for all to spit upon...
...view of the U.S. 1944 election which the world took. To America's allies and friends, Franklin Roosevelt's re-election was a vote for U.S. participation in the ordering of the world, an endorsement of the working partnership of Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt and Chiang Kaishek, both in war & peace - and a promise that this time the U.S. would not withdraw. Political leaders abroad no longer hid their relief...
...Minneapolis, Minnesota's Republican Congressman Walter H. Judd, who had been in China, gave his version of what had happened: one day General Stilwell received orders to deliver an ultimatum from the White House to Chiang Kaishek. The ultimatum demanded that General Stilwell be made commander of all China's armies or the U.S. would withdraw its military support from China. No self-respecting head of state could countenance such an ultimatum. The Generalissimo's patience snapped. Angrily he retorted: Then the U.S. will have to withdraw its support. Said Congressman Judd: It was a diplomatic mistake...