Word: soong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four days the excitement continued. Soldiers of Chiang Kai-shek's army were all over the place. Only a few companies of Lung's troops did any shooting, and the Dragon never had a chance. On the fourth day Premier T. V. Soong flew down from Chungking. He and the Chinese commander in chief, General Ho Ying-chin, had a morning conference with General Lung, that afternoon escorted the amiable old scoundrel by air to Chungking. General Lu Han, Lung's former aide, took over the Yunnan government for the Generalissimo...
Would you care to know what irks me most about TIME? . . . It is a statement like the following [TIME, Sept. 3]: "When Soong talked tough, as he often did in the seven all-night conferences, Russia knew that Soong was not bluffing. Stalin, who likes straight talk, liked Soong...
...successful-or at least coincided with success. China had its treaty with Russia and it was peacefully debating with the once rambunctious Chinese Communists. No one, least of all Pat Hurley, would contend that the U.S. Ambassador had brought all this about. Chiang Kai-shek and Premier T. V. Soong had achieved the treaty with Moscow without outside help, and the treaty had immediately broken the back of Chinese Communist resistance...
First he discussed peace with the Emperor, then on June 9 he extended the first peace feelers to the Soviet Union through diplomatic channels. Very few in Japan knew of the move. When Russia replied that they were sorry but they were occupied with the meeting with T. V. Soong, Suzuki knew it was too late. Then came the Potsdam Conference and the Soviet answer to the peace feeler: the declaration...
Emily Hahn, best-selling author (Seductio ad Absurdum, The Soong Sisters), got news in Manhattan about her English friend Major Charles Boxer, whom she described in China to Me as the father of her four-year-old daughter Carola. The ex-Chief of British Military Intelligence in Hong Kong had been found alive and well in a Jap prison camp, said the London Evening News. Said Miss Hahn: "He'll come home and marry me, of course...