Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Suppressed Report. Had Nationalist China been a hopeless cause? If so, U.S. policy apparently made a mad marriage with despair and defeat many years ago, and wasted billions on the dowry. But the State Department's own record raised doubt that this was always so. After V-J day, it concedes, China's economic situation was "surprisingly good and contained many elements of hope." As late as 1947, the Nationalists were "at the very peak of their military successes...
...more than ignore Wedemeyer's recommendations. It suppressed release of his report until last week. In releasing it, Dean Acheson gave the Administration's astonishing reason for suppression: Wedemeyer had recommended that Manchuria be placed under U.N. trusteeship, and that would have disturbed the Nationalist government. At the time, Manchuria was almost completely in the hands of the conquering Communists...
...Nationalist China, now formally abandoned by the U.S., crumbled faster & faster. On the day the State Department issued its White Paper, Red columns led by Manchurian General Lin Piao marched unopposed into Hunan's capital of Changsha, last major city between the Communist armies and Canton, seat of the Nationalist government...
...world's headlines called it a story of treason; it was perhaps just as much a matter of despair. Nationalist Generals Cheng Chien and Chen Ming-jen had been close all their lives. Together they had risen to positions of leadership and trust in the Nationalist government. They shared a common dislike of Chiang Kaishek...
Last week, Chen Ming-jen defected to the Communists too. Another southward lunge brought the Communists within 215 miles of Canton, where weary Nationalist officials began packing again. Their next stop: Chungking, scene of their exile during most of the war with Japan. Nationalist General Pai Chung-hsi hastily regrouped what was left of his forces at Hengyang...