Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christian survivors of the weird, 18-month Communist siege of the Chinese walled city of Yungnien were convinced this week that the airplane would never replace the raven as a satisfactory instrument for airborne delivery. For a year Yungnien's dwindling population had been perilously supplied by the Nationalist Government. Great, 60-pound loaves of unleavened bread and cases of canned fish, pitched from low-flying aircraft, had warded off starvation, but they had also: 1) punched gaping holes in almost every roof; 2) leveled some dwellings by direct "hits" on the center beams; 3) killed at least...
...weathered 13 centuries of Mongol, Tartar and Manchu invasion before it began crumbling under the rain of friendly bread. The Japanese, who had occupied the city, abandoned its 35,000 citizens in August 1945 to a ragtag puppet garrison, which was quickly adopted-but not reinforced -by the Nationalist Government. When Chinese Communist forces neared, the garrison breached the banks of the nearby Fu Yang River and turned Yungnien into a Nationalist fortress in a vast, Red-bordered lake...
Both among diplomats here and at Nanking it was viewed as a likely signal for the start of the full scale civil war long brewing between Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist government and the Communists in North China...
...that they were there to help the Kuomintang, not to "repatriate prisoners" as headquarters was claiming. With the comfortable feeling that whatever happened, good old Uncle Sam would never let them down, the reactionaries could be just as tough in dealing with the Leftists as they wanted. When the nationalist army was transferred to Hulatao in LST's, and Lend-lease material continued to flow in long after the war was over, they had good reason to believe so. In no time at all, of course, the Communists developed the reverse side of the medal, that the Marines were only...
...first, like many French Canadians, Rodrigue Villeneuve was a nationalist and isolationist. Yet when war came, Cardinal Villeneuve shed his isolationism, urged French Canadians, foes of conscription and overseas service, to register for the draft and to enlist. He said in 1941 : "We are legally at war and we are bound to fight. . . . You cannot fight this war by condensing the horizon to this continent...