Word: chiangs
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...Hitler intended to throw his full weight at Russia, but his first moves were tentative and met a rough Russian answer. It looked as if the Japanese Army were going to try to knock China out of the war, and yet the campaign seemed, at least to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's plane-blind forces, unclear and not yet full-blown. It looked as if the Japanese Navy were re-forming for another reach at Australia's screen, but the concentration was not yet completed. There was renewed activity in the Mediterranean, but it was not clear whether...
...Bengal-as it did. Stilwell could fight his way out. The R.A.F. could batter the German in Europe, turn back the Jap in the Coral Sea. But if the foe struck deep enough into China from the south, if he could pile up enough reverses to erase Chiang, either in battle or by treachery, then ruin would be close. The Jap would have nine-tenths of his New Order in Greater East Asia. It might then take years to knock...
From China, with footslogging infantry troops and all the rolling forces he could spare, Chiang Kai-shek moved south to meet them. Chiang threw another force into Burma far to the east, by fierce battling kept the Jap on the west side of the turgid Salween River...
...Burma Road, behind the south-marching Chinese, another Jap force sprang up. Apparently it had come from Indo-China. Chiang, blinded by lack of reconnaissance, wheeled to meet this attack...
Strong Japanese motorized columns today appeared to be driving towards Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province and key to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's vital southwest defense zone...