Word: lai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...project Todd last summer had won the cooperation of Chinese Nationalists and Chinese Communists. But last week the Communists were demanding a five-month postponement of further work on the river. In Yenan, Communist Spokesman Chou En-lai gave the official Communist reason: "It would destroy the lives and property of several million people" living in the path of the river's projected diversion. The Reds charged that resettlement of these millions had been delayed by the Nationalists' failure to make good a promised $15 billion CN ($4.5 million U.S.) relief payment to local Communist authorities...
...foreign colony straggled in. The General had invited them some time ago for afternoon movies and ice cream; he would not break this date even for affairs of state. Between meetings with the press and a long list of callers, including T. V. Soong and Chou En-lai's secretary, Chang Wen-chin, the General looked in on the moppets as they disposed of a gallon or so of vanilla. That evening he drove to the Gimo's again for family dinner...
...turn of the Russian tide had diverse signs: Andrei Vishinsky, in token of the new Russian conciliatory line at the U.N. Assembly, went to Mass; Chou En-lai went to Nanking; an order for removal of the Zeiss factory went to Jena (see FOREIGN NEWS). Noting the signs, the West would do well not to crow in triumph; at best, democracy had won only time to put its own addled house in order, clear up its own inconsistencies and injustices. But in winning that time, the policy of "patience and firmness" to Russia had paid...
...Communist Representative Chou En-lai came back to the Nanking negotiations after a month's sulk in Shanghai, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek flew to Formosa on what he said was a routine, long-scheduled inspection trip. Observers, recalling the North Kiangsu offensive launched during Chiang's summer absence at Kuling, decided to wait and see. They saw plenty...
...spite of his conviction that China "could be effectively unified by military victory, the Gissimo had, just before Kalgan's fall, acquiesced to Marshall's proposal for a ten-day truce that would have javed the Red city. Communist negotiator Chou En-lai turned down the truce and let Kalgan go, though its loss drove a wedge between Communist Yenan and the Reds' Manchurian rampart. Kalgan's capture was the climax and the symbol of six months of campaigning in which the Government army had been more successful than impartial observers had expected. In addition...