Word: shih
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diplomats of any nation have been more popular in the U.S. than slight, charming Hu Shih, China's foremost living scholar, China's Ambassador to the U.S. since 1938. Last week Chiang Kai-shek recalled Ambassador Hu, replaced him with Dr. Wei Tao-ming. The Gissimo...
China's spokesmen in the U.S. politely but insistently emphasized her immediate need. Major General Chu Shih-ming, Chinese Military Attache in Washington, declared that with a well-balanced force of 500 U.S. bombers and fighters, China's armies could take the offensive; in other words, 500 would be enough to save China for the present...
China's military mission in Washington (TIME, June 1) was making an unprecedented display of pique and urgency. It was fed up with being both neglected and modest; China was desperate. General Hsiung Shih-fei, the mission's head, went so far as to say that China was worse off than when the U.S. joined her against Japan. U.P. quoted him as saying that "during two months he has heard no discussion of grand strategy, and if there is any, he cannot find it out." Yet Chiang was optimistic...
...that house is the Chinese Military Mission sent by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to help the U.S. plan and coordinate campaigns in the Far East. Head of the mission is General Hsiung Shih-hui, a quick-witted, rugged, battlewise soldier. One of its members is Peter Chuh, the Gissimo's nephew. Several of them speak as well as fight Japanese. Most of the members have known the Japanese intimately in battle-for five years past...
...slate blue. U.S. Army and Air Force men in their brown blouses and "pink" slacks. The British have the third floor, U.S. officers the second floor. On the first floor is the promise of even wider cooperation. There are quartered the Chinese, headed by Major General Chu Shih-ming; there also are the beginnings of representation for The Netherlands, Australia...