Word: weis
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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...
...about how they had bombed the Lunghai Railway, which the Japanese had tried to break almost as many times as the line has ties; and of course about how the American friends had beaten part of the Japanese Fleet. They spat when they read that the traitor Wang Ching-wei had gone to Manchukuo, where the Japanese were said to be concentrating troops against the Russians...
...While studying law at Leland Stanford University he made the acquaintance of some San Francisco Chinese who set his imagination to sparking on the coming Chinese Revolution. Knowing that he would never be accepted by the U.S. Army, he went to China, offered his services to Premier Kong Yu Wei, who was secretly plotting against the Dowager Empress...
March 30, 1940. Japan set up its Wang Ching-wei puppet Government at Nanking...
...Thailand. Under pressure, the Government of Premier Luang Pitul Songgram granted Japan a 10,000,000-baht ($3,600,000) loan, recognized Manchukuo as a token of friendship. (It was carefully explained that the recognition of Manchukuo had been chosen as a lesser evil than recognizing Puppet Wang Ching-wei at Nanking.) Japan continued pressing demands-demands which, if accepted, could end only in the capitulation of Thailand...