Word: changing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over China people suddenly seemed to realize that the elections were just around the corner. Interior Minister Chang Li-sheng calculated that 150,000,000 Chinese were eligible to vote. Nobody had any hard figures on the number of candidates, but in the polls of Nov. 21 and Dec. 21, some 4,000 delegates would have to be elected to China's National Assembly and its Legislative Yuan. Constitutional government was being inaugurated on schedule. Last week, China, just like Western models, had ward heelers, slush funds, wire pullers, whispering campaigns, vested interests and a sprinkling of high-minded...
...Miss Chang Yulin held out the ultimate threat: "If I fail, I shall reveal all the secrets of the elections...
...Nanking, Chinese General Chang Chih-chung addressed an open letter to Achmadjahm: "What is the meaning of your withdrawal? ... Is it the abrogation of our Peace Agreement? Is another armed rebellion being hatched? ... If you have no intention against peace you will return to Tihua and reopen negotiations with the Government...
Tihua Picnics. Last week General Chang submitted to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek a five-year plan for Sinkiang's reconstruction. Under it Nanking would send 60 or 70 technicians to develop agriculture and mining in the northwest. A large financial grant would be made...
...part this was General Chang's effort to retrieve past Chinese blunders; in part it was Chang's bid for the loyalty of the Moslem Turkis in the larger struggle which seeks to prevent Sinkiang from becoming the "Poland of Asia...