Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months had passed since Nationalist forces seized Yenan, stronghold of North China's Communists (TIME, March 31). Yenan's fall promised better things to come. But U.S. leaders hemmed & hawed over aid to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek; inflation and political rivalries gnawed at the morale of his people. Gradually, the initiative passed back to the far-from-whipped Communist armies of Mao Tse-tung...
...night, while the party rested in the walled town of Chioshan, Communists attacked it. Nationalist defenders placed their ammunition dump next to the missionaries' quarters. When shells began to fall, the missionaries took cover in the basement, and prayed again. Nationalist reinforcements arrived, and the Communists withdrew...
...Adventists' train came to a dead halt after the first few miles. Communist troops of General Chen Yi questioned them, bragged that the next train would not leave for two years. When Nationalist forces appeared, the Reds withdrew. The Warren party hired pushcarts and continued south. Behind them they heard the gunfire of new attacks, but twice each day they paused for prayer...
Three weeks ago, the U.S. press headlined the testimony of Lieut. General Albert Wedemeyer before the Senate Appropriations Committee. Wedemeyer, whose report on China had been suppressed by Secretary George Marshall, roundly endorsed immediate economic and military aid to the Nationalist Government of Chiang Kai-shek (TIME...
...special court passed the death sentence on U Saw, Burma's pro-Japanese nationalist leader, and eight accomplices, for plotting Aung San's murder...