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Article #620598Re: Olympics opening ceremony
From: Anne Lynn Wheeler
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 03:02
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 03:02
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ma...@mail.com writes: > 'No cite but from memory, 'Vinegar'Joe Stillwell , an US general that > was put in charge of one chinese (Nationalist) Army, so despised > Chang- Ki Check (sp?) that after a while he would not even talk to > him. Chang's wife was a member of a powerfull, very corrupt, Chinese > family with high ties to the US government, The Chinese resistance to > Japan tied up large numbers of the Japanese Army for most of the > war,in spite that resistance being split between the factions. my wife's father was command of engineering combat group and towards end, frequently ranking officer getting some number of officer daggers in surrenders ... including concentration camp. After end of hostilities, he refused further command in Germany, even when offered promotion to general (retired in early 60s w/o the promotion). Possibly as punishment, in 1946 he was sent to China as military advisor to Chiang Kia-shek ... and brought his family over in 1947 to live in Nanking. Soong sisters, my wife's mother talked about going to state dinners, my wife was too young to go. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soong_sisters Their marriages and alleged motivations have been summarized in the Maoist saying "One loved money, one loved power, one loved her country" ... snip ...
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