Word: chiangs
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Instead of suing for peace, Chiang retreated, drawing the Japanese Army farther and farther into China's mammoth interior, imitating after a fashion the strategy by which the Russians ruined Napoleon...
...Chiang was no mixture of revolutionary and saint like Dr. Sun Yatsen, who in 1911 had stirred the Chinese to overthrow the corrupt Manchu dynasty. He was just the son of a South China wine merchant, who had been trained in the Military Academy at Tokyo, and later became president of the Whampoa Military School in Canton. When Dr. Sun died in 1925, China was overrun by warlords. It took a hardheaded soldier like Chiang to command the loyalty of the Kuomintang. Hardheaded men in Chinese politics are not stubborn idealists -against odds they normally quit or sell...
...Chiang had the earmarks of such...
...Chiang nursed his hold over the Yangtze valley, but patriotic Chinese intellectuals distrusted him. His only "offensive" gestures were made against the Chinese "Reds" of the southeastern province of Kiangsi, inner lair of the famed and capable Chinese Soviet generals, Mao Tse-tung and Chu Teh, whose "communism" amounts to little more than a Populistic desire to give land to the tax-gutted and landlord-ridden Chinese peasant. Counting on Chiang's willingness to let the great granary of North China go, the Japanese Minister of War, General Hajime Sugiyama gave his underlings the green light signal without first...
...Japanese army, who had become Minister of War, could have claimed that the Japanese had for all practical purposes won their war: they had bitten off the five northern provinces as planned. But the Japanese had found that they were not fighting their war. They were fighting Chiang's war and they had still...