Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists had finished off Manchuria, prices were skyrocketing, and Dewey had lost the U.S. elections. At 40 to the dollar, the gold yuan had sunk in two weeks to a tenth of its original value. A wave of defeatism swept Nationalist China. Frail Wong Wen-hao, a geologist in private life, tried three times to resign as Premier, finally agreed to hang on until Chiang Kai-shek could find a successor...
Generalissimo Chiang, the only power still holding the Nationalist government together, had no illusions about his chances in a Communist-dominated coalition. Last week he conferred in Nanking with his top generals: Fu Tso-yi, whom he gave a completely free hand in the north, Chang Chih-chung, from the far northwest, and Pai Chung-hsi, from Hankow in Central China...
...Yangtze Valley, now threatened by 185,000 Communist troops under General Chen Yi. As one minister put it: "Manchuria is a limb that has been amputated. The body can live, despite amputation. North China is another limb, and even that may be sacrificed. But Central China is the Nationalist heart-and if the heart is pierced the body dies...
...West is dealing with too many rightist governments even now--a fact that gives the Communists excellent propaganda. And de Gaulle's leadership would be highly nationalist, to the detriment of Western cooperation on both economic and military planes...
Unfortunately, a full-scale Manchurian Dunkirk from Yingkow was no longer possible. The success of the operation depended on the ability of General Liao Yao-hsiang to keep open the escape corridor with twelve divisions, to allow the remaining seven Nationalist divisions to embark. Last week, the Communist radio announced that Liao's whole demoralized force had been wiped out. Significantly, it added that the disaster had occurred "on the eve of the U.S. elections...