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...reactionary enemies" (whom he hopes to clean up next after the bandits) President Chiang meant the new self-styled Chinese Government at Canton (TIME, June 8). Its most august member is wizened Tang Shao-yi, in 1912 First Premier of the Chinese Republic...
...Canton Government of 1926 launched a war to conquer all China, conquered it (TIME, June 11, 1928) and is now the Chinese Government at Nanking known to President Hoover. Mr. Chen is now back in Canton exactly where he started in 1926. He even holds the same office, Foreign Minister. He has broken with the Chinese whom President Hoover knows as President of China and whose Government is at Nanking, wasp- waisted Marshal Chiang Kaishek. Last week Mr. Chen said of Marshal Chiang: "He has a medieval mind. He has begun to think of China as his personal property...
...fearless editor in his own right, he learned propaganda as assistant to the Soviet master of that art, Comrade Michael Borodin, whom Dr. Sun Yat Sen borrowed from Moscow and whom Marshal Chiang cast out after he had prepared Chiang's conquest. Last week Mr. Chen plastered all Canton (fourth largest Chinese city) with propaganda posters of Soviet type ridiculing President Chiang. The wasp-waisted, bandy-legged little President was shown perched ludicrously oh the Manchu Throne, bedight as Emperor of China. This cartoon, it was hoped, would "inflame the people...
Shoulder to shoulder in the new Canton Government with "Brains"' Chen stood a fat-faced younger man named Sun Fo who stands for "Prestige." He is the son of "the Father of the Chinese Republic,'' the late, great Dr. Sun Yatsen. Up to a few weeks ago Sun Fo was Minister of Railways in the Government of wasp-waisted President Chiang, his stepuncle...
...week munitions were landed at Canton. An Exchange Telegraph despatch said that the new Government "has enough on hand to fight for six months." Contracts have been secured, according to this despatch, by enterprising German and Japanese firms to supply the Canton Government with $1,000,000 worth of munitions. Up to last week President Chiang had talked much at Nanking of sending soldiers by land and warships by sea to crush the "Cantonese rebels" but he had done little. The new Canton Government was getting a good start, may yet have to be recognized by the Washington "friend...