Word: changes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three months, gentlemen," said Yale's Wang in fluent, accentless English, "will be the most critical period in the diplomatic history of China."* Reasons for Foreign Minister Whang's forebodings were: 1) Fortnight ago, just as China was settling down to a period of comparative calm, General Chang Fa-k'uei, leader of the efficient, modernized "ironsides" division of the Nationalist Army, suddenly revolted, marched his men south through Hunan Province to join the southern rebels of Kwangsi, who have defied the authority of the Nationalist Government since last May. 2) Encouraged by thoughts of the well...
...their gasoline and oil had forced them to land willy-nilly. The Chinese insisted that they were Russian spies. Was not their plane painted the red of the Soviets? And away they took the Frenchmen 40 miles to Tsitsihar, town on the Chinese Eastern Railroad. There the captors telegraphed Chang Hsueh-liang, Governor of Manchuria, of the arrests. He, more news-wise than the people, rewired that the Frenchmen be handled politely, be given aid for continuance of their flight...
...President Chiang Kai-shek ordered a $1,000,000 "credit for war supplies" placed at the disposal of his field commander in Manchuria, Marshal Chang Hsueh-lian...
Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek ripped open at Nanking last week an urgent telegram from Governor Chang Hsueh-liang of Manchuria: "THE SITUATION IS GROWING GRAVER EVERY MINUTE. I REQUEST INSTRUCTIONS WITH REGARD TO DEALING WITH PROVOCATIVE AND BELLIGERENT SOVIET TROOPS IN AN APPROPRIATE MANNER...
...Tokyo a Japanese newspaper gilded the lily with a story of how slain Prince Hsien Kai had probably been attentive to one of Chang's numerous "wives." Wrote the ingenious Tokyo editor: "Chang, who at one time has had as many as 40 wives, could not bear, the police believe, to see anyone take liberties with even one of them...