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Word: shek (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Nanking Administration Building, where Chiang Kai-shek and his colleagues used to hold state meetings, Puppet Wang sat alone at a long table. In walked General Abe, followed by 22 junior officers. Wang stood up. The General sat down. Wang sat down. The General indicated a document lying on the table. Wang signed it. General Abe signed it. Japan was at "peace" with China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Last Card | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...should give all possible aid to China. This means granting substantially unlimited credits to the Chiang Kat-Shek government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUICK ACTION IN FAR EAST IS DEMANDED BY ALUMNI GROUP | 11/15/1940 | See Source »

...notion that "You can't understand the Oriental mind" is being dispelled by able writers and journalists of both races. Lin Yutang and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek show us China from the inside--John Gunther and Carl Crow from the outside. J.B. Powell continues to give us his important journal of opinion, the China Weekly Review, though he is on Wang's blacklist and has to have a bodyguard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Where U.S. newsmen block the road of Japanese ambition | 10/17/1940 | See Source »

...Netherlands Indies as an Asiatic country." In a telegram to Publisher Howard, Director Hoshio Mitsunaga of the Nippon Press Association suggested that the U. S. can prevent a crisis if it "abandons its fortifications at Pearl Harbor, Guam and the Midway Islands, gives up its support of Chiang Kai-shek and restores trade to normalcy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Thunder in the East | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

While China weighed these problems last week Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek never faltered. The "Gissimo" was determined to hang on till the end. He still has enough ammunition left for another year of fighting; the morale of his Army is unimpaired. But he knew and China knew that with the Japanese about to attack on his flank from Tonkin, now, if ever, was the time to listen to Japanese overtures for peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: War or Peace? | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

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