Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Kremlin thinks the "nationalists" have gone too far, it cracks down on them, as it did last week on Maurice Thorez (see below). Tito, however, runs much less risk of Moscow-inspired revolt in his party against his nationalist line. He can enforce his will in his own backyard exactly the way Stalin can enforce his will in the Russian party...
China's Nationalist commanders got what they had been hoping for-a big, positional battle with the Communists in Central China. They won, but the Reds got away in shape to fight again...
...weeks ago, when wily Communist General Chen Yi seized the Honan capital city of Kaifeng, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek flew to the battlefront to direct the recapture of the city (TIME, July 5). But as Nationalist columns closed in, Chen evacuated Kaifeng and plunged southward through government territory toward the swift Yangtze River...
...Nationalist force of about equal strength moved in from the east and west, under the overall direction of Chiang's chief of staff, General Ku Chu-tung. The Red commander struck first, and brilliantly. He picked off a Nationalist brigade, and decimated an entire Nationalist division, the newly formed 75th. Then the Reds looped a steel ring around four divisions of the crack Nationalist Fifth Army, guardian of Nanking. Crowed the Communist radio: "The Fifth Army is being cut into pockets and annihilated...
Then the Red attack stalled. As they arrived, more & more Nationalist divisions were fed into the fight. Nationalist planes strafed and bombed the. encircling Communist lines. When repeated assaults failed, Chen Yi tried a last dodge. Loudspeakers in his trenches cried to the surrounded Fifth Army divisions: "Save yourselves needless sacrifice! Rise up and join the anti-Chiang united front...