Word: chiangs
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...told how one of General Doolittle's flyers, forced to bail out on Chinese soil after bombing Tokyo, had seen the populace running toward him, had waved and shouted the only Chinese word he knew: "Mei-kuo, Mei-kuo"-America, America (literally, said Madame Chiang, "beautiful country"). "Our people laughed and almost hugged him and greeted him like a long-lost brother...
...friends," said Madame Chiang, "I feel that it is necessary for us not only to have ideals and to proclaim that we have them, it is necessary that we act to implement them...
...Senate is not in the habit of rising to its feet to applaud. For Madame Chiang it rose and thundered...
...Madame Chiang took her time. She had made many speeches in her life, but never one quite so important as the one the words of which were spread out on the little, mahogany manuscript-stand that had been borrowed from the Senate for her. She had spent weeks thinking about this speech. China was in it. Her husband was part of it. Her life, her acquaintance with America, her identity with her own land, had gone into...
...thing Madame Chiang was determined not to do was plead. Back in 1938 she wrote a Wellesley classmate, Miss Emma Mills: "I want to go to America, but I do not want any visit of mine marked by a belief that I am coming on a begging expedition." And so she spoke as an equal...