Anna Chennault

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Anna Chennault with her husband Claire Lee Chennault

Anna Chennault , ( Chinese  陳香梅 , Pinyin Chén Xiāngméi ), also known as Anna Chan Chennault / Anna Chen Chennault and "The Dragon Lady" (born June 23, 1923 in Beijing , Republic of China ; † March 30, 2018 in Washington, DC ) was the widow of Claire Lee Chennault , a famous World War II veteran and US Republican politician .

Life

Chen Xiangmei received a Bachelor of Arts from Lingnan University in Hong Kong in 1944 and an honorary doctorate in literature from Chungang in Seoul ( South Korea ) in 1967 . Her career began as a war correspondent for the Central News Agency from 1944 to 1948. From 1944 to 1949 she also worked as a feature writer for the Hsin Ming Daily News in Shanghai . In 1947 she married Claire Lee Chennault, who was more than 32 years older and died in 1958. The relationship resulted in the two children Claire Anna and Cynthia Louise.

After the death of her husband, she worked from 1965 to 1999 as a special correspondent for the Central News Agency and from 1958 to 1999 as the US correspondent for the Hsin Shen Daily News . From 1963 to 1966 she was the spokeswoman for the station Voice of America . From 1946 to 1957 she worked as an editor and in charge of public relations for Civil Air Transportation in Taipei , Taiwan . She was also Vice President for International Affairs for Flying Tiger Line, Inc. From 1976 to 1999, she was President of TAC International .

Chennault was a member of the President's Advisory Committee of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts from 1970 and served as a member of the United States National Committee of UNESCO from 1970 to 1999 , as President of Chinese Refugee Relief from 1962 to 1970, and from 1960 to 1960 1999 served as President of the General Claire Chennault Foundation . She was chairman and founder of the National Republican Asian Assembly .

Since 1960 she was a member of the executive committee of the Republican Party in Washington, DC . In 1968, Chennault established contact between the South Vietnamese ambassador Bui Diem and the then presidential candidate Richard Nixon , which led to secret talks between the Republicans and the then South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu . Nixon got Thiệu to boycott the peace talks that had already been agreed to end the Vietnam War . This cost Nixon's opponent Hubert Humphrey , who had supported these talks, the decisive votes in the presidential election on November 5, 1969.

Anne Chennault and Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou in 2015

Honors

Works

  • Chennault and the Flying Tigers : Way of a Fighter (1963)
  • A Thousand Springs (1963), a best-seller
  • The Education of Anna (1980)
  • Song of Yesterday (1961) in Chinese
  • MEE (1963) in Chinese
  • My Two Worlds (1965) in Chinese
  • The Other Half (1966) in Chinese
  • Letters from the USA (1967)
  • Journey among Friends and Strangers (1978, Chinese edition)

Memberships

literature

  • Catherine Forslund, Anna Chennault: Informal Diplomacy and Asian Relations (2002) ISBN 0-8420-2833-1
  • Hyung-chan Kim, chief editor, Distinguished Asian Americans, A Biographical Dictionary , Greenwood Press (1999), pp. 55, 56.

swell

  1. ↑ Anna Chennault, secret Nixon envoy and Washington figure of 'glamor and mystery,' dies at 94. In: Washington Post , accessed April 5, 2018.
  2. ↑ Christopher Hitchens: The Trial of Henry Kissinger Verso-Verlag, London / New York 2002, p. 12
  3. ^ Martin Kettle: New Study: Nixon 'Wrecked Early Peace In Vietnam' ( August 2, 2007 memento in the Internet Archive ) Manchester Guardian , August 9, 2000
personal data
SURNAME Chennault, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 陳香梅 (Chinese); Chan, Anna; The Dragon Lady
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese-American editor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Beijing
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 2018
Place of death Washington, DC