Word: kaishek
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...three purposes behind his drive. First he wanted Rangoon, unloading point for the supplies that go up the Burma Road to Chiang Kaishek. Second he wanted to dig in there against the day when he could lash out at India. Finally, he wanted to beat the British to the draw in their "must" offensive against the Japanese supply line to Malaya...
...United Nations were not idle. Down from China marched troops of Chiang Kaishek, tattered, road-worn, weather-beaten and fit. They traveled in the classic Chinese manner-on foot and incredibly fast-covered 1,000 miles before going into position. Probably they were somewhere on the upper Thailand border, from which more Japs might still issue to strike directly at the Burma Road...
Particular commendation to all of the men you mention and more specifically to a man from a country never before so united under one great leader-Chiang Kaishek...
...Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr, 59, Ambassador to China since 1938. An aristocratic Scotsman and career diplomat, Sir Archibald became noted among the Chinese for his personal and official friendliness. He was instrumental in selling the idea of China's thousands of industrial cooperatives to Mme. Chiang Kaishek, treated the Japanese aggressors in China with such flat, undiplomatic candor that whenever he went into Japanese-fringed Shanghai he had to wear a bulletproof vest. He will be succeeded in China by Sir Horace James Seymour, 56, Assistant Under Secretary of State. Sir Archibald may be useful in Moscow...
Married. T. L. Soong, 48, Chinese financier, brother of Foreign Minister T. V. Soong, Mme. Chiang Kaishek; and Maying Hsi, 23-year-old Manhattan art student, daughter of Te-mou Hsi, general manager of the Central Bank of China; in Manhattan...