Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowding back. The Berlin airlift was clapped under new Russian pressures. The U.S.-supported Sophoulis cabinet wobbled and fell in Greece. Along the nation's East Coast a wildcat strike of longshoremen exploded into a full-scale tie-up. Then last week came the news that the whole Nationalist government in China faced collapse, that Nationalist China was fighting for its life on the Suchow front...
...rejecting Bridges' suggestion, at least one high Washington official emphasized the present hopelessness of the whole Chinese situation, on which the U.S., for the past three years, had turned its back. The U.S. had made mistakes, he pointed out, which could not be corrected overnight. China's Nationalist government was also deeply at fault. Something was obviously wrong with Nationalist military leadership. Why, for example, had well-trained, well-equipped Nationalist divisions refused to fight at Mukden...
...million men surged around Suchow in the greatest battle in China's history. A Communist victory would open the way to Nanking and probably seal the fate of the reeling Nationalist regime. A government victory might buy enough time for Chiang's harried forces to recover from their recent string of shattering defeats-and for effective aid to arrive from the West...
...line to the coast, is a drab, unlovely city, protected by a rim of well-fortified, rocky hills. By week's end Communist General Chen Yi's mobile columns had swung around Suchow, cut all rail lines and brought the main airfield under artillery bombardment. Officers of Nationalist "Bandit Suppression Headquarters" hastily flew south to set up quarters nearer Nanking...
...that Mukden has fallen (TIME, Nov. 8), Taiyuan has become the prime Communist objective in North China. Taiyuan, surrounded capital of Shansi Province, is the last island of resistance protecting the southern flank of Nationalist General Fu Tso-yi's North China corridor. For three years Taiyuan's commander, oldtime warlord Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, has fought off increasingly heavy Communist attacks. Last week TIME Correspondent Robert Doyle flew in to visit the marshal. Doyle cabled...