Word: changing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clarke H. Kawakami '30, of Washington, D. C., holder of the Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques Fellows! up for study in France. Two research fellows from abroad have been chosen for study at the Harvard Law School. They are Sherman J. K. Chang of Nanking, China, and Wolfgang Kraus of Bad Homburg, Germany...
Paradoxically, Yen's resignation, his evacuation of Peking were not decisive, rather the reverse. The old city's new master is a human enigma: Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, War Lord of Manchuria, from which his wellarmed, well-fed troops arrived by the thousand in swiftly chuffing freight trains...
...Nanking, seat of the central Chinese "National Government," recognized by the U. S., headed by stalwart little President Chiang Kaishek, jubilant mobs hailed the new status of Peking as meaning that "their" troops were taking it over. News extras said that Manchuria's Chang had accepted the rank of "vice commander of the Nationalist army & navy"?that is to say, he had climbed off his neutral fence, proclaimed himself a 100% Nationalist...
...north this was not so sure. Peking tingled with tales of a secret pact between Yen and Chang. The young Manchurian, it was said, would hold Peking during the winter, nominally as a Nationalist, actually biding his time. In the spring, when Chinese wars begin, he would see. If by that time the Shansi marshal and his great ally Feng had recouped their strength, Manchuria's Chang might join them in a new attempt to capture all China...
...Feng and Chang are Northerners. North and South China are agelong foes. But last week Southerner Chiang Kaishek, President at Nanking, could at least boast that he had broken and hurled back if not destroyed the armies of Yen and Feng which last spring seemed bent on his extermination. Next spring will be another spring...