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...In December 1941, during the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong, Canadian Brigadier John Lawson was killed here after radioing to say: “They are all around us. I’m going outside to fight it out.”...
...Sen recalls visitors to the ashram included Eleanor Roosevelt, Chiang Kai-shek and, of course, Mohandas Gandhi, who was murdered by a Hindu nationalist....
...It is also the setting for John Le Carre’s classic The Honourable Schoolboy....
...Indeed, the best writing here is from John Steinbeck’s loving description of the Carmel river and its farms, sycamores, raccoons and frogs — “It’s everything a river should be” — in an excerpt from Cannery...
...China did not disguise its irritation with the airline’s air-steward union’s support for the demonstrations, and comments by Cathay chairman John Slosar did nothing to improve the situation....
...This would help “to facilitate the Catholic Church spreading faith inside Mainland China”, said Professor Joseph Cheng Yu-Shek, of Hong Kong’s City University....
...Containing 650,000 artefacts — ceramics, bronzes, paintings and plenty more, much of it removed from the Forbidden City in Beijing when Chiang Kai-shek’s republican forces retreated to Taiwan — it spans...
...Rite Aid’s chief executive John Standley is stepping down after nine years at the helm and two failed merger attempts....
...For decades Mao and his successors would occasionally lob missiles across the Strait at the Communist party’s old civil war adversary Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalist party....
...In the first modern example of the panda as an explicit political gift, the wife of Chinese leader Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek presented a pair of the animals — named Pan-Dee and Pan-Dah — to the Bronx...
...Alongside Mr Riady’s sons James and Singapore-based Stephen, his grandson John Riady is heavily involved in day-to-day operations. A Wharton alumnus, he is well-liked in Jakarta business circles....
...A long wait The last time such a meeting occurred was in 1945 when the Communist guerrilla leader Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek, the head of the nationalist forces, met in an attempt to avert civil war...
...The US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and others explicitly endorsed that view, with the US delegate, John Foster Dulles, asserting that “clearly, the wise course was to proceed now, so far as Japan is...
...As John Garnaut, a China expert, wrote recently, this undermines the story of China as “an inexorably rising power”....
...When Chiang Kai-shek went to America, he described himself as “Generalissimo”. I wonder how a pope would describe his occupation....
...He approvingly quotes John Mearsheimer, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, who refers to the “stopping power of water”....
...China in 1947 by the government of the then Netherlands East Indies for his anti-colonial activism, and subsequently forced to flee China as the civil war between Mao Zedong’s Communists and Chiang Kai-shek...
...They trace those ideas through early 20th-century thinkers such as Liang Qichao through to Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Zedong and Deng himself....
...From John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama, US presidents have used their spouses to help improve their image at home and abroad....
...oversaw the restoration of French rule in what would become southern Vietnam, was described by a member of his staff as having “one of the greatest minds of the twelfth century”; and that when President John...
...Mitter, professor of Chinese history and politics at Oxford university, is especially strong on Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalist regime....
...It sold its playing card business to John Waddington and Formica was also sold....
...Before January 1961 was out, John F. Kennedy, 43, was inaugurated as Eisenhower’s successor and proclaimed that the torch had been passed to a new generation....
...The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China By Jay Taylor Belknap, $35 The traditional view of “General Cash-My-Check” as a corrupt and incompetent bit-part player in the story of...
...There are far more spectacular walks, such as the Dragon’s Back in Shek O Country Park, but they require a taxi ride to get to....
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