Word: weis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through their puppet, Wang Ching-wei, the Japanese still hope to make a separate peace with some group within the Chungking Government. "They hope to split China away from union with America and England, and, as they say, 'to return China into the bosom of East Asia.' They try to buy defeatists, capitulationists and appeasers, acting under the guise of promising the 'independence and sovereignty of China.' They seek indefatigably to sharpen China's inner discord and arouse civil...
...tall and talented tennist, he looks older than his 42 years. He stresses discipline and English composition in a special Calvert up-&-down script. Brown is proud that Calvert has helped make life bearable for U.S. children in crowded Jap concentration camps like that in Shantung's Wei-hsien. The Calvert method was used there for six months by Rochester's Mrs. Frederick G. Scovel, wife of a medical missionary. Repatriated on the Gripsholm last winter, she wrote...
Unlike the army of Honan, this "was a first-rate fighting force,'partly equipped with U.S. howitzers and mortars, partly led by U.S.-trained officers, commanded by the seasoned veteran, General Wei Li-huang, whom his men call "100-victory Wei." Effective air support came from Major General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force...
...Last year Bishop Chen baptized the Generalissimo's second son, Captain Chiang Wei-kuo. 29. *Three weeks ago Retired Bishop Gowdy now living at Winter Park, Fla., received the Special Order of Brilliant Stars medal from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek...
...basis of public opinion." Minister of Publicity Liang Hanchao defined two methods of dealing with puppets: 1) those willingly serving the enemy "will be brought to book"; 2) those serving to keep their rice bowls filled "may be pardoned and even given liberal treatment." Liang said that Wang Ching-wei, No. 1 puppet in Asia, is definitely one of those to be punished when captured. Others were doubtful, recalled that Wang had tao-ko ("reversed spear") five times, betraying causes he once espoused, and had always been forgiven...