Word: kuomintang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tsiang began to address the U.N. Assembly's Political & Security Committee, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky contemptuously interrupted. "Fictitious representatives of a fictitious government," he snarled at Tsiang. The true representatives of China, he cried, were the Chinese Communists. Russia would not debate charges made by Kuomintang "pygmies.'' Then he packed his briefcase, waved his deputy foreign minister., Jacob A. Malik, to his chair and stalked out of the conference room into the corridors, arm-in-arm with Czechoslovakia's Vladimir Clementis...
Politely, Tuan asked the nine to come back into the Nationalist fold or else clear out of the embassy. Three eventually changed sides again, reaffirmed their allegiance to the Kuomintang. Six remained adamant. To deal with them, said Tuan, reinforcements would arrive this week from the still loyal missions in London, Brussels and The Hague. Said Counselor George Mong (the rebels' ringleader): "Tuan is one of my oldest and dearest friends. If, in the end, he tosses me out, there will be nothing personal...
...government and the Kuomintang . . . had sunk into corruption, into a scramble for place and power, and into reliance on the United States to win the war for them ... Its leaders had proved incapable of meeting the crisis confronting them, its troops had lost the will to fight, and its government had lost popular support . . . History has proved again & again that a regime without faith in itself and an army without morale cannot survive the test of battle . . . The Nationalist armies did not lose a single battle during the crucial year of 1948 through lack of arms or ammunition . . . [They...
...them, whatever their politics, had worked tirelessly for years to induce Chiang to clean his dirty, disordered house which had scarcely known a day without war-against the Communists, the Japanese (for eight years) and again the Communists. Every one of the U.S. envoys wanted to soften Kuomintang one-party rule, guarantee civil liberties, suppress graft, reform landholding, balance budgets...
...days Chiang obviously enjoyed himself at official tea parties. Then he stood up before a meeting of Kuomintang leaders, and went straight to the heart of the matter. Said...