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...well as most of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's unseated Kuomintang chiefs...
From the start, Russian national interests also shaped Moscow's attitude toward the Chinese Communists. In the 1920s, Stalin ruthlessly sacrificed Mao's Communist movement to Chiang Kaishek, whom he supported because he considered him a strong Soviet ally who would fight both Western and Japanese threats to Russian power. Decimated by Chiang, the ragged Chinese Communists survived in the caves of Yenan and eventually went on to conquer China, despite Stalin's warning that they were backward and not ready for revolution. After the war, Stalin sent Mao a Russian handbook of partisan strategy against...
...Actress Anita Louise specialized in throwing trays of glasses; Fashion Leader Mrs. Harcourt Amory wielded a sledge hammer on a 30-ft. red velvet-lined balustrade; Mrs. Jacob Javits timidly tossed just one champagne glass while her Senator husband looked on. But Mrs. Wellington Koo, sister-in-law of Chiang Kaishek, won the wreckers' honors. She took an ax to the wall, then to a chair and finally sank it in a sofa that the management had not even intended to destroy...
...best-known soldiers, the proud possessor of eleven battle wounds and many more decorations for valor, a lanky Oxonian who lost his left eye battling dervishes in Somaliland, and his left hand during a grenade charge at Ypres in 1915, and became Churchill's military envoy to Chiang Kai-shek in World War II; in Killinardrish, Ireland...
...when Edgar Snow evaded Chiang Kai Shek's Kuomingtang blockade of the Communist controlled Shensi province and first met Mao Tse Tung and his band of revolutionaries, most people in the outside world doubted that these Chinese "soviets" even existed. Snow's prediction of a Kuomingtang-Comunist alliance was widely discounted; his warning of a post-war victory for the revolution was almost completely ignored. In fact, Russia as well as the West scoffed at this so-called Communist movement, which possessed a peasant rather than prolctarian base. Up through the 1949 debacle, the Soviet Union continued to support Chiang...