On September 1944 and 16, Chiang Kai-shek delivered an impromptu speech at the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference meeting, saying that "at this critical juncture, the state should make educated youth serve the battlefield first, because educated youth have knowledge and the ability to judge automatically. If an educated youth is added to the team, there will be no fewer than ten ordinary soldiers. "
He called on young intellectuals all over the country to actively join the army and put forward the slogan of "one inch of mountains and rivers and one inch of blood, 100 thousand young people and 100 thousand troops" Subsequently, the Kuomintang Central Committee decided to widely mobilize young intellectuals to join the army, recruit young intellectuals100000 people, and form an expeditionary force.
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An inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood, 100 thousand young people and 100 thousand soldiers. This is a political slogan, not a poem. What is certain is that this political slogan has set off a wave of young intellectuals joining the army.
The background is as follows:
1944, the Japanese army launched the campaign of "opening up the mainland traffic line". Luoyang was captured after May 25th, Changsha was captured in mid-June, Hengyang was captured on August 7th, and after a short rest, Guilin and Liuzhou were captured continuously, like nobody's business. Chiang Kai-shek decided to launch the movement of 65,438+10,000 educated youths to join the army in view of the serious shortage of junior cadres and special forces of the Indian Army in China and the Myanmar Expeditionary Force, as well as the fact that a large number of allies came to China in urgent need of translators.
In September, Chiang Kai-shek called on young intellectuals to join the army at the National Political Council. 10, 10, he made a speech, and then set up the "National Steering Committee for Young Intellectuals to Volunteer to Join the Army", and appointed He,,, Zhang Zhizhong and Bai Chongxi as the Standing Committee members to promote the work of young intellectuals to join the army under the direct leadership of Chiang Kai-shek.
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