Word: tung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tung, chairman of the Chinese Communist Party . . . whose success caused so much anxiety...
...Hong Kong to file some copy and get some rest, Doyle cabled: "Since my wife and I came to China unencumbered with household goods, we can watch with a relaxed eye the pell-mell evacuation of Shanghai by those with loads of furniture and the ever present tung-hsi (things) that you collect out here. We have pared our operating essentials (clothes, household equipment, etc.) to a minimum and sent some of our things south against the possibility of looting in Shanghai should the city's fall become imminent. A neighboring correspondent and his wife, who plan to stay...
...rear, donkeys, loaded with heavy machine guns, plodded stiff-legged over the rough street. Trucks piled with bundles and crates swirled by. "So many troops," said a fat, black-gowned merchant, standing in front of his shop; "suddenly they are marching. Where?" He shook his head. "Wo pu-tung, wo pu-tung (I do not understand, I do not understand...
...sent a succession of special envoys, including General George C. Marshall, to mediate between Chiang and Mao Tse-tung. U.S. mediation merely succeeded in holding up Chiang's forces for nine months in 1945-46 while the Reds...
...Western European, such as the late Jan Masaryk, was that Chiang never believed that his Communists were "different." He had known them too long, had sensed better than many men in the West that there was no position of neutrality one could take with Communists. Mao Tse-tung had put it very well: "To use the word 'neutral' is to do nothing but cheat oneself...