Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department, this was a moment of rare anguish; an autopsy on a friend is not nice work. With such diplomatic surgery, Secretary of State Dean Acheson (and the staff of 80 who had worked on the white paper) had operated on the prostrate body of Nationalist China. Their task was complicated by the fact that the body was still stubbornly squirming with life...
...leaders had proved incapable of meeting the crisis confronting them, its troops had lost the will to fight, and its government had lost popular support . . . History has proved again & again that a regime without faith in itself and an army without morale cannot survive the test of battle . . . The Nationalist armies did not lose a single battle during the crucial year of 1948 through lack of arms or ammunition . . . [They] did not have to be defeated; they disintegrated...
...fumbling, vacillating attempts to help Nationalist China, the U.S. had actually spent $2 billion. It was a sum, said Acheson, "of proportionately greater magnitude in relation to the budget of that Government than the United States has provided to any nation of Western Europe since...
Instead it was Chiang who fell on Jan. 21, 1949. Promptly Chiang's successor, Acting President Li Tsung-jen, blatantly betrayed the bankruptcy of Nationalist China by trying to pull one of the most freakish double-steal plays in modern diplomacy. He proposed to the Soviet Union a pact promising elimination of U.S. influence in China-and simultaneously asked the U.S. for a statement of support to assist him in negotiation with Moscow. The State Department's one word for this was "incredible...
...Faolain, a Roman Catholic, is at his best in explaining the relationship between church and people. Under James I, he says, the persecution of Catholicism in Ireland began to make the priest a personification of nationalist resistance to England. This was intensified by such acts as Cromwell's edict that "any man who wanted to earn ?5 need but produce the head of a wolf or of a priest, it did not matter which." Hence, says O'Faolain, the attachment of the people to the clergy...