Word: changing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lineup. Chang Tso-lin, onetime "King of Bandits," now Super Tuchun of Manchuria, self-styled All Highest Grand Marshal of China, potent dictator of Northern China, actually in control of Peking...
...shan, Super Tuchun of Shansi, so-called "model province," who last week threw in his lot with the Nationalists, after months of alleged political bargaining. He has long been considered the kingpin in the Chinese situation; if he joined Chang Tso-lin, then the Nationalist cause was doomed; if he joined the Nationalists, then the fall of Peking might be considered certain and Chang driven back to Manchuria...
...warm admirers and follow ers, remindful of the $7,000,000 he has given to charities, schools, universities in Peking and his clemency in pardoning many a Chinaman languishing in jail, called this latest manifestation of Marshal Chang's will the "Magna Charta," the "Chinese Droits de l'Homme...
Observers remarked that while Dictator Chang's words were true, there was in reality no need of the new laws, for many excellent statutes remain unenforced. However, all agreed that his measure was sound, but expected that the new orders, like the old laws, would be ignored by the Marshal's favorites...
Politically, the move was seen as a bid on the part of Marshal Chang for political popularity particularly in the South, where many desertions to the Northern side might well be expected to result...