Word: chiangs
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...hope we can cooperate against aggression. The Japs also gave us sweet words, but brought hell, rape, looting, death-chill death, barbaric death." These were the desperate words of warning with which Chiang Kai-shek hoped to cash in on India's potential fighting population of 352 million natives, on his visit to New Delhi last week. But Chiang did not suspect that the spirit of Kipling would frustrate all his appeals. He did not know that Pandit Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi's successor as Chairman of the Indian National Congress and symbol of India's nationalist movement, had spent...
...Daddy") Rung. Seldom has even a horse-&-buggy doctor operated under such harassments as the coolie-&-ricksha society of bomb-torn Chungking has imposed on aristocratic Dr. Kung, 75th descendant of Confucius. An active ingredient of the inflation has been lack of confidence in the finances of the Chiang Kai-shek Government. Some of his henchmen have been accused of worse things than incompetency. And so a large measure of the responsibility in turning the U.S. and British loans to good uses will rest on the shoulders of the Generalissimo's loyal Dr. Kung...
...Treatment. With 13 billion Chinese dollars' worth of U.S. and British credit to play with, Daddy Kung ought now to be able to operate more successfully on the gangrene of inflation. Dr. Chiang suggested some ways this might be accomplished...
...Long Night Watch. And so the aid had come at last. Dr. Chiang, and the Chiang for whom he spoke, might be pardoned for a tiny grain of bitterness, for remarking, politely, that certain countries "sandwich a great deal of talk between actions...
...Chinese, as always, took their bitterness manfully. Dr. Chiang, closing the conference on Chungking hill, looked back on China's years of war: "Night fell early upon China's independence," he said. "But we held on, hoping against hope. Then at midnight, at the darkest hour, we suddenly found at our side stout and loyal companions in arms...