Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Chen Yi's forces, driving relentlessly from the west and southwest, were within eight miles of the city. Simultaneously, two Red armies from the northwest knifed in toward Woosung Fort at the confluence of the Whangpoo and Yangtze rivers. At one point on the Woosung defense perimeter, Nationalist troops threw back the attackers after a bitter hand-to-hand battle...
South of the city, the Communist vanguard surged on to a point halfway between Shanghai and the refugee Nationalist capital of Canton. More than 350 miles of the Shanghai-Canton railway were in Red hands. Another Communist spearhead was within 150 miles of the vital seaport of Foochow. West of Shanghai, Nationalist General Pai Chung-hsi's armies withdrew hurriedly as the rugged, battle-tried armies of General Lin Piao opened attack on the industrial center of Hankow, gateway to the "rice bowl of China...
Meanwhile, Shanghai's Nationalist defenders continued to rule the city with a trembling iron hand. Firing squads continued public executions of fifth columnists, black marketeers and other culprits. On outlying roads, hundreds of laborers sweated to throw up machine-gun emplacements and earthworks. In the confusion, however, many of the earthworks were built facing not the Communists, but one another...
After three days the Nationalist line blocking the Reds from Woosung still held firm. Said a Chinese Central News Agency dispatch: ". . . in a sea of blood and death the troops are fighting on & on." To bolster morale, Shanghai's new mayor, Chen Liang, rode out to the front in a truck loaded with gifts for the troops-20 live pigs, 20 cases of cigarettes, 3,000 sandwiches and 600 towels. At Lunghua airport, U.S. airlines announced the departure of their last planes from Shanghai. The planes took off with passengers jammed three to a seat...
...parliamentary elections earlier in the week, Hertzog's moderate democrats had achieved their long-sought majority. But at the same time the Movement of Nationalist Revolution, the totalitarian-type party whose leaders were driven underground with the lynching of Dictator-President Gualberto Villaroel in 1946, took a new lease on life. The M.N.R. elected nine deputies, and its candidates ran second in many districts of the country. On election night its partisans tangled with pro-Hertzog paraders under the lampposts in La Paz' Plaza Murillo, where Villaroel had been hanged. By the time the government got things...