Word: kaishek
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...possible for an American general or admiral to determine in what numbers, and where, our Allies shall fight. This has to be ironed out by the responsible Allied Governments-ironed out with Churchill, De Gaulle, Stalin, and Chiang Kaishek. It involves commitments only Government heads can make. It involves the national aspirations which are the basis of practical military strategy...
...somber, almost majestic sameness. Again the dispatches told of Jap advances, Chinese retreat, threatened disaster (see WORLD BATTLE-FRONTS). Again Chinese spokesmen pleaded for aid. Again the U.S. Government replied with a tribute. Vice President Wallace, leaving Chungking, left behind a message from President Roosevelt to Chiang Kaishek: "The stand which your people have made against the forces of aggression has set an example for all the friends of China...
Year VII. In the person of Chiang Kaishek, China sat at Cairo as one of the world's big powers-a tribute to her resistance, a token of her coming place. Her armies and her people suffered, hoped, retreated, resisted, hung...
...skillful playing of the ancient Chinese game of family politics. Himself the direct descendant of Confucius (75th generation), Dr. Kung married the eldest of the three famed Soong sisters. At once he thus became the brother-in-law of China's late, sainted Sun Yatsen, of Chiang Kaishek, and of T. V. Soong...
Model Town. In Kenanpo the news men met aged, wily Yen Hsi-shan, an old-style but relatively progressive warlord. Once he was an enemy of Chiang Kaishek, is now his honored representative. The slippered old man, in a private's uniform, told them of his program to out smart the Communists by improving administration, lifting the lot of the peasant. But Yen's main job was to watch the Japanese, 20 miles to the east. The news men watched coolies singsong a dismantled truck up the cliff, for use on the highway leading to the static front...