Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three days earlier, Shanghai's Nationalist defenders had announced: "We will fight to the last drop of blood." Most Shanghailanders fervently hoped that this promise would not be kept. They regarded the Nationalist cause as hopeless, and feared that a prolonged defense would bring nothing but pillage and destruction to the world's fourth* largest city...
...Fight, Push. While a Nationalist spokesman was shouting words of defiance, something else was happening around Shanghai's defense perimeter. From his vantage point on the twelfth floor of the massive Picardie Apartments in Shanghai's old French concession, an American looked south over Lunghua airport. Later he described what he saw: "There were sharp bursts of machine-gun fire from the south. Then, within minutes, every road into the city was clogged with retreating Nationalist soldiers and civilians. Soldiers who were walking yanked civilians from their bicycles and pedicabs. The soldiers ran and fought and pushed...
...Nationalist officials made an eleventh-hour getaway from Kiangwan airfield. One of them was Mayor Chen Liang, who had just announced the beginning of "Health Week" in Shanghai. Quipped the Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury the next day, before the Communists took it over: "The mayor certainly was sincere about it. He found out what seemed best for his health and promptly did it." By dusk, the western and southern outskirts of the city were bare of troops...
...morning, after the fighting had eddied around the house for several hours, a shell hit the compound and wounded six Nationalist soldiers who had moved into the garden house...
...Argentines. A convivial customers' man and a millionaire (National Dairy Products Corp., Baltimore Trust), Businessman Bruce did as he was told. He got on joke-swapping terms with Juan Perón, hobnobbed with the cardinal primate and governors. Bruce became so close a friend of some nationalist generals that it got to be embarrassing. A group of army brass once invited him to a meeting. Just in time, Bruce learned that they were plotting the government's overthrow and wanted his advice. "This is one meeting, gentlemen," he told them, "which I cannot attend...