Word: kai-shek
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Only 30% thought that the U.S. should start an all-out war with Communist China, but 46% (v. 38% opposed) thought that Chiang Kai-shek's forces could defeat the Communists on the mainland if given supplies and logistical support...
...fought in warlords' armies, became a Communist Party member in 1926. After Chiang Kai-shek's bloody 1927 ouster of the Communists from the Kuomintang, Liu made his way to Moscow, where he studied guerrilla tactics and Far Eastern politics at the Red Army Military Academy. When Russian troops entered Manchuria in 1929 in a dispute over the Chinese Eastern Railroad, he went along; his assignment was to recruit Manchurian volunteers for the Soviet forces. A year later, he slipped into the Shanghai underground, then went on to the interior to join the Chinese Red army in Kiangsi...
...White House aide, leafing through a routine sheaf of wire copy from the news ticker, started with surprise. He had come across the report of Joe Martin's speech, made that afternoon in the House, containing General Douglas MacArthur's letter endorsing the employment of Chiang Kai-shek's troops to open a second front in China. The aide rushed in to the President's office. As he read, Harry Truman flushed with anger. As the White House leaked the story later, he made his decision then & there-Thursday, April 5-that Douglas MacArthur must...
Within a month after the President's announcement neutralizing Formosa, he had flown there to call on Chiang Kai-shek and had been pictured kissing the hand of Madame Chiang Kaishek; he made numerous statements to visitors of the course he deemed necessary in Asia, and he fired off his famed letter to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, declaring Formosa essential to U.S. defense...
...Republicans rallied briskly to the defense of MacArthur. Ohio's Senator Robert Taft observed: "It is ridiculous not to let Chiang Kai-shek's troops loose ... It is utterly indefensible and perfectly idiotic." A few Democrats publicly answered back. Said Oklahoma's Senator Robert Kerr: "I think the prolonged performance of his one-man act is wearing the patience of the rest of the team mighty thin...