Word: chiang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...views coincide with the recommendations made earlier this month to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by Conlon Associates Ltd. at the conclusion of a study requested by that committee. Of course I knew that Chiang Kai-shek was the most cherished of TIME'S sacred cows but, even so, the extent of your personal attack, distortions and inaccuracies surprised...
Reconciliation. No longer do Americans in India find themselves subjected to the special brand of Indian inquisition that used to feature a series of needling questions: Why does the U.S. back dictators like Chiang Kai-shek and Franco? Why does the U.S. arm Pakistan, India's obvious enemy? Why are Negroes oppressed in the South? Last month, when quietly competent U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker addressed the first session of the newly formed Indo-American Society in rambunctious, left-wing Calcutta (where Eisenhower was burned in effigy in 1956), he was astonished to find that it had already a thousand...
...symbolic figure ruled out: the American Fighting-man was the choice for the Korean War year of 1950 and the Hungarian Freedom Fighter was chosen for 1956. There have been two Women of the Year-Wallis Warfield Simpson for 1936, Queen Elizabeth for 1952-and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek shared the cover with her husband on Jan. 3, 1938. The Man of 1957 was Nikita Khrushchev, and for 1958 it was Charles de Gaulle...
FORMOSA Ten Years Later One bitter December afternoon in 1949, as the Communists swarmed down through southwest China, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, wearing a long Chinese gown, a grey felt hat and carrying a cane, gravely took leave of the officers who were remaining behind, and took off in his C-54 for a seven-hour flight to his last place of refuge, Formosa. He found little but desolation. U.S. air raids had shattered the efficient Japanese-built factories, and food production was sagging. Morale was at its lowest ebb, for few Formosans had faith in the Nationalist government that...
...with hard work, and one of the largest outlays of U.S. money abroad-more than $1 billion between that day and this, not counting extensive military equipment-Chiang's Formosa did survive, and one recent evening, the Gimo, accompanied by Madame Chiang, drove down to the heart of Taipeh to see the solid evidence of a decade of economic achievements at the First Annual Trade Fair of the Republic of China. "Hao, hao [good, good]," he said, as he passed through row after row of stalls proudly displaying Formosa-made trucks, machine tools, plastic toys-even Ivy League shirts...