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...woman, Mme Chiang. Four hundred and fifty million Chinese could imagine nothing more poignant than the reported fainting and prostration of Dictator Chiang Kai-shek's wife as she sat beside a radio in her sumptuous Nanking home and heard her husband's kidnapper, the Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang (TIME, Dec. 21) broadcast from Sian in central China that his men had not only kidnapped but also murdered China's Dictator...
...said the Nanking Government, and the modern electrical transcription machinery of Nanking Central Broadcasting Co. had recorded what he actually said. Before quoting his words, the Government called the Young Marshal and his troops "mere bandits," declared it was beneath the Government's dignity to treat with young Chang, and clarioned that for him to be killed by a Chinese process of slow torture known as "the 10,000 Deaths" would be an insufficient expiation of his monstrous crime in kidnapping the Dictator. After this the Government released to China and the world its official recording and translation into...
...Official" Program of Kidnapper Chang was as follows (full text): "The Central [Nanking] Government [of China] has not been sincere in carrying out resistance against Japan. This has been shown by lengthy negotiations and the suppression of patriotic movements. So we must gather our forces, overthrow the Central Government and expedite the national salvation...
...Chang thus demanded vengeance in the form of war and by inference the restitution of his inheritance. Any not-too-well cured dope addict might have had this scarcely brilliant idea, but what about Reform No. 1 ? Who put pro-Red ideas into the noodle of the Kidnapper? Old Chang, when he held Peiping (TIME, June 27, 1927 et seq.) indulged his habit of doing something so fantastic that today only Adolf Hitler does it: he caused the heads of Communists to be actually chopped off and "roll in the sand." Old Chang's executioner with his great broad...
Only the decisive assassination of Premier Chiang would raise his kidnapping much above this indicated status. Even then Young Chang might have in mind simply taking over the whole scheme, or one like it, and attempting to carry it through with a dope addict's overweening confidence in himself. To frantic Mme Chiang, who was with great difficulty prevented from flying to Sian from Nanking, the gallant young Marshal telegraphed: "Before God, I swear I have not harmed anybody. Therefore you need not worry...