Word: kuomintang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heart, the Gimo had disposed 400,000 troops in the flat, rich, water-laced plains around Suchow. At week's end, as his soldiers met the first shock of Chen Yi's armies, Chiang made one more effort to rally his people around him. At a Kuomintang meeting in Nanking, Chiang cried: "Our war against the Communist rebels is a national war, a continuation of the war of resistance against the Japanese . . . We must be ready for a struggle of eight years or more against the Communists . . . The government is determined to fight on to victory...
Many Republicans have harshly criticized the Marshall mission of two years ago, which attempted to bring both sides together in a coalition government. Now as then, however, the single alternative to that program is American military support of the Civil War. Such support cannot save the fascistic Kuomintang and will only further estrange the liberals whose friendship is essential to the reconstruction of China along Western lines. In view of the present fiasco, the only realistic policy is to recognize Chiang's defeat and his inability to govern any longer...
Localized Zigzags. Li, Ho or Fu (or any other successor to Chiang) would have great difficulty uniting the Kuomintang behind him. The mere mention of their names brought closer the prospect of regionalism. A trend toward decentralization has already set in, partly because the Gimo has had to rely on trusted local commanders in remote areas to equip and organize their own commands. In North China, local authorities have been buying arms for militia forces independent of the Central government, and the use of silver dollars (banned by the Central government in 1935) has spread. In Manchuria, General...
Home to Mother. Dr. Wong is not physically impressive: he is under 5 ft. and weighs 90-odd pounds, and his homely face is scarred from an auto smashup 14 years ago. He has no political following: though a member of the Kuomintang, he is generally considered an independent. Most of his life has been passed in the relative obscurity of the Geological Institute and on university teaching staffs. He entered government service in 1935 at Chiang Kai-shek's repeated requests, rose rapidly to ministerial rank. Before becoming Premier his job was that of Minister of Economic Affairs...
...Frank Buchman's "Oxford Group," which of late years has called itself MRA (Moral Rearmament), was apparently winning other pivotal Chinese adherents. In Nanking last week, Kuomintang Party Boss Chen Li-fu, a devoted Confucianist, said that he hoped very much to attend the Buchmanites' annual U.S. convention this month, in Hollywood...