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...Announced that Mme. Chiang Kaishek, wife of the Chinese Generalissimo, was in the U.S. for medical treatment (of a spinal injury suffered in a 1937 auto accident), would be a guest at the White House afterwards...
...Gulliver" painted on its weathered nose in Chinese,* English and Russian), through nearly a score of countries and territories flaming with war, separated Wendell Willkie from his last meeting with Franklin Roosevelt. As the President has yet to do, Willkie had met and talked with Joseph Stalin and Chiang Kaishek. He had spent 161½ hours in the air, smelled the smells of Cairo and looked down from his airplane windows at uncountable square miles of Siberian vastness. He had seen American soldiers in many countries, listened to the beefs and urgings of many men. Into his ears had been...
...ashen-yellow hand over his knobby, shaved head. He spoke as always, snapping out the long vowels and hissing sibilants of his native tongue with the impatience of rifle fire. It was fitting that he should speak now, at the weekly Sun Yat-sen memorial service. For Chiang Kaishek, like Sun Yatsen, realized that in the wild and mountainous provinces of the great Northwest, China had an undeveloped treasure house. More than that, it was the last link with the outside world and a refuge for Free China if Chinese and United Nations armies were ever disastrously defeated in Asia...
...rice, silk) provinces of China. It was forcing him out of Kiangsi, west of Chekiang. And farther south he was slowly falling back on Canton. The Jap had his explanations, while China rejoiced at getting its military feet back on the fertile fields of Chekiang, birthplace of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. The Jap said he was preparing for other work. Probably he was. But as he thinned out his garrisons, the foundations of his conquest were magically washed away, and Chiang's soldiers found it suddenly easy to speed him on his retreat...
...C.N.A.C. was not coining money. The reasons are not on the record, but he finally sold out to Pan Am again. By that time Bill Pawley had made pals of China's bankers T. V. Soong and Dr. H. H. Kung-not to mention Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Soon he convinced them that China needed its own airplane factory with Bill Pawley to build...