Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make her dramatic, last-minute plea for more money and arms for Nationalist China last December, Madame Chiang Kai-shek asked the U.S. for a favor: she needed suitable air transport between Nanking and Washington. The U.S. Government fixed her up handsomely. The Military Air Transport Service brought her to California in a Navy plane, flew her and her party (a general, a maid, two secretaries) the rest of the way in the old presidential DC-4, the Sacred...
China is lost to Communism. "The Nationalist government," says Nehru, "had some good elements but also some bad ones. Its failure to get rid of the bad elements was its downfall." Delhi will follow London's lead in the matter of recognizing the Chinese Communist People's Republic...
...home of U.S. Ambassador Alan Kirk. They were watching a movie, when big news arrived. Within hours of Mao Tse-tung's bid, Joseph Stalin's government had granted recognition to the Chinese Communist government. In a brusque note to Canton, Moscow had brushed off the Nationalist as "a provincial government" and withdrawn its recognition...
...Nationalist military news agency said three armies (possibly 60,000 men) were heading north from Canton to strengthen the defense belt around the provisional capital...
Communist General Lin Piao swung his main forces southwest in pursuit of Chinese Nationalist troops withdrawing into Kwangsi Province yesterday...