Chiang Kai-shek Quotes
China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed nation. For us, the Atlantic Charter and President Roosevelt's proclamation of the Four Freedoms for all peoples are corner-stones of our fighting faith.
Chiang, Kai-shek. All We Are and All We Have: Speeches and Messages Since Pearl Harbor. John Day Company, 1943, p. 54.
This newspaper was an English language organ published by General Allenby’s British and Allied forces in the Middle East. Prior to the war, the Middle East was all part of the Ottoman Empire. However, the Ottoman Turks sided with Germany in WWI and their Middle East dominions were targets for the allied military strategy.
The IRA had just murdered Lord Mountbatten with a bomb on his small boat. Mountbattten, then a 79 year old, elderly man in retirement was a member of the Royal Family. His grandson was also murdered. Mountbatten had not had anything to do with Ireland but to the IRA he was a symbol of British imperialism since he had been the British Viceroy of India. Actually, it was he who had organized and presided over Indian Independence.
Mobutu with Amerucan CIA and French assistance deposed Lumumba, murdered him, and seized power.
Nguyen Ai Quoc was early pseudonym. At the Versailles WWI Peace Conference a young, 29 year old, Ho Chi Minh showed up and tried to present his petition for Vietnamese independence to Woodrow Wilson and the other non-French leaders. (Indochina was then a French colony.) Little attention was paid to him and his petition. Even though Wilson was for national self determination, all the other major WWI Allies had overseas colonial empires. After suffering losses from German aggression they were interested in getting those back plus reparations—not ceding away any of their then existing territory. They paid little attention to Wilson on the self determination issue and the Senate would not support Wilson on the League of Nations which then might have pressed for self determination. Ho was snubbed. It was a costly, unjust snub for the world.
Shortly after the failed uprising the Mufti went to Berlin where he was made a Nazi SS Major General and set up Arab SS Units to exterminate the Jews in the Middle East. See {586894}.
Chiang Kai-shek, also known as Chiang Chung-cheng and romanized via Mandarin as Chiang Chieh-shih and Jiang Jieshi, was a Chinese Nationalist politician, revolutionary and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975, first in mainland China until 1949 and then in Taiwan until his death.