Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer to be known as "British," in deference to nationalist feelings of non-British members...
Slowly but inexorably, the armies of Communist General Chen Yi bore down across the flatlands of the Yangtze delta. In the second week of the South China offensive the Reds' pace had slowed down somewhat, but they triumphantly reported eight Nationalist armies crushed and trapped between the Yangtze and the coast. Hangchow, last coastal railroad gateway to the south, was deserted and lay open to the conquerors. Red armies also bore down on Shanghai...
Within two weeks, Chinese Communist armies have swept across the Yangzte River to capture the Nationalist capital, Nanking, and encircle Shanghai. Dramatic as the advance is, there is nothing surprising about it. Everyone who understands the situation in China and the Far East has seen the move coming for more than two years. The people who cry now that the U. S. is responsible exhibit a complete failure to study the lesson which must be learned from Chiang Kai-Shek's costly fiasco...
...Nationalist leaders said: "We will fight to the bitter end . . . Nanking will hold out for six months." But they knew they could not keep these brave promises; the bitter end was at hand...
...clear token of surrender. But the shelling continued. The stricken captain ordered Chief Boatswain's Mate David Heath and 59 others, including the wounded, to abandon ship. Some reached the south bank in the Amethyst's whaler, others swam. Once on the south shore, they crawled into Nationalist territory. Said Heath: "The Reds machine-gunned and shelled us. We lost a couple of chaps that way." With the help of the Amethyst's Chinese mess boy as interpreter, most of the fugitives made it to the railroad, arrived in Shanghai the next...