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...only leader of modern China who has inherited his authority is the well-meaning, hollow-eyed young man known throughout China as "The Young Mar-shal," Chang Hsueh-liang. He is the deposed warlord of Manchuria and, until last week, ruler of Peiping and the surrounding province. Last week destiny caught up with him and with the rest of China. Chang Hsueh-liang is the son of Chang Tso-lin, one of the most picturesque Chinese characters to emerge since the death of that grand old lady, the Empress Dowager Tzu-hsi. Chang Tso-lin was a bandit who made...
...Cantonese leader who joined his old enemy Chiang Kai-shek to oppose Japan at Shanghai, resigned as Premier of the Nanking government, dragging the entire cabinet with him and sending an acid note to Chiang Kai-shek complaining bitterly at the piffling resistance to Japan put up by Chang Hsueh-liang, the Young Marshal. Sick, discouraged, disgraced, the Young Marshal offered his resignation too (TIME, Aug. 15). All the pleading of Chiang Kai-shek could not make him withdraw it last week...
...Fascism, and last week Chiang Kai-shek was reported to be organizing a Chinese Fascismo with the 3,000 cadets of his Whampoa Military Academy as blackshirts and himself as an almond-eyed Mussolini. Even this would not work unless he could find someone to take young Marshal Chang's place at Peiping to hold the north for him. For days he bargained frantically with three possible candidates: Ho Ying-chin. Minister of War in the Wang Cabinet; Han Fu-chu, War Lord of Shantung; old Marshal Wu Pei-fu, the Scholar War Lord. The three candidates remained...
...Chiang has lost much face by his continued failure to consolidate and pacify central China (his own territory) and his failure to provide more determined resistance to Japan. Wang Ching-wei resigned in disgust having first sent a note protesting the passive military policy in the north of "Young Chang" Hsueh-liang, ruler of Peiping...
...Young Chang followed Wang out two days later, handed over his control to two committees, one political, one financial. It was a move that Peiping observers have been expecting for nearly two years. Well meaning, sickly, dope-taking Young Chang had never the influence or the ability of his sly father, the late great Chang Tso-lin. Japan's occupation of Manchuria has ruined him financially, disgraced him as a soldier, emasculated his ragged army. What the final result of these two resignations will be few dared guess last week. It was obvious that the strange sort of equilibrium...