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...China it had been an era of feverish surface progress. "Westernization" had brought plumbing, the beginnings of legislative government and mass education; it had also brought machine guns and Christianity and Karl Marx. Chiang Kai-shek had been a part of all of it; the era's story was his story...
...Gimo had done it before. Could he do it again? He sent Madame Chiang off to the U.S. to urge all-out assistance. If the Gimo could hold his country together awhile, and if Madame Chiang could change U.S. policy, it would be a double miracle. If that double miracle did not occur, then an era would have ended...
...cities, the prestige of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had sunk lower than the Yangtze. An American traveler in Shanghai wrote home: "His name is mud in all classes-they feel toward him as Americans felt toward Herbert Hoover in 1933." The U.S. Embassy was evacuating Americans as fast as it could. In the U.S. itself headlines flared the black news. China-and what to do about it-was Page One; Asia's howitzers could now be heard in Kansas City, although the U.S. still had only a very partial notion of how big its stake was in the China...
Double Miracle? In the vortex of this gathering disaster, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was buoyant and determined. He dodged in & out of his private map room, saw dozens of visitors, counseled his field commanders by long-distance telephone. One day last week he drove through the cold rain to the cavernous National Assembly building, 20 minutes later emerged smiling. He had persuaded liberal Sun Fo, son of China's revered revolutionary leader Sun Yatsen, to become Premier in a new super war cabinet. Asked if the government planned to leave Nanking, Chiang said that no such plan was being...
Double Mission. The machine guns fascinated Chiang first; from his youth in Chekiang Province, he wanted to be a soldier. At China's Paoting Military Academy in 1906, he got high marks, though he was the only student who did not wear a queue; in those days queuelessness was a sign of dangerous, republican thoughts. The high marks got him a chance to study at a military school in Tokyo. And here, with other young Chinese, he met Sun Yat-sen on the eve of the October 1911 revolt against the Manchu dynasty. Once the revolution began, Chiang hurried...