Word: chiangs
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...China is fast losing her war with Japan, and that means that the United Nations are fast losing Asia. To beat China down, it is not necessary for the Japanese to take every bit of Chinese terrain, or even most of it. China is war-parched and war-tired. Chiang Kai-shek does not want to give up to the Japanese, but high in the councils of Chungking there are those who might make peace and set up with Japan an Asiatic imperialism, with the white man evicted finally and forever. If China sinks farther into the morass of defeat...
While the Japanese have had some success in coordinating transportation in Occupied China, Free China under Chiang Kai Shek has built thousands of miles of roads, including the great Burma Road and the Chinese-Soviet highway, one of the world's longest...
...supplement to the fine portrayal by word and picture of the man "with the tender eyes and jaw of iron" [Chiang Kaishek] in TIME, June 1, the following is quoted from one of the daily readings in our current quarterly...
...made to Chungking. . . . Seven times that day Japanese planes had raided the city and dropped bombs. The Generalissimo explained that they were trying to find out where he was staying. After a simple dinner the visitor was asked to remain for evening devotions. They knelt together, and first Madame Chiang offered a prayer, then the guest prayed, and finally the Generalissimo. He prayed for the American people to whom his guest was going, then for his own Chinese people, and finally for the Japanese people, whose representatives that day seven times -had tried to kill him. Here...
Champion to date of the 1942 season of honorary degrees is War Production Boss Donald M. Nelson. By this week he had four-from Harvard, Northwestern, Missouri, Pennsylvania Military College. Among others given honorary degrees last week: Mme. Chiang Kai-shek (in absentia), Raymond Gram Swing, Sumner Welles, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Frank Knox, Henry L Stimson, J. Edgar Hoover, Nicnolas Murray Butler...