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Word: chen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...China, cheered themselves hoarse & hot while Cantonese soldiers marched through the arches. Finally the new Cantonese Government officially established itself by swearing in a Cabinet: "The Council of Sixteen." In this Cantonese clique venerable Tang Shao-yi is just window dressing. Brains of the new Government is Eugene Chen, 53, born at Trinidad in the West Indies, "qualified London solicitor," onetime editor-publisher of the Peking Gazette, member of the Chinese Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, and Acting Foreign Minister in the Canton Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: New Government | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

...Canton Government of 1926 launched a war to conquer all China, conquered it (TIME, June 11, 1928) and is now the Chinese Government at Nanking known to President Hoover. Mr. Chen is now back in Canton exactly where he started in 1926. He even holds the same office, Foreign Minister. He has broken with the Chinese whom President Hoover knows as President of China and whose Government is at Nanking, wasp- waisted Marshal Chiang Kaishek. Last week Mr. Chen said of Marshal Chiang: "He has a medieval mind. He has begun to think of China as his personal property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: New Government | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

...Chen is the master propagandist of China. A fearless editor in his own right, he learned propaganda as assistant to the Soviet master of that art, Comrade Michael Borodin, whom Dr. Sun Yat Sen borrowed from Moscow and whom Marshal Chiang cast out after he had prepared Chiang's conquest. Last week Mr. Chen plastered all Canton (fourth largest Chinese city) with propaganda posters of Soviet type ridiculing President Chiang. The wasp-waisted, bandy-legged little President was shown perched ludicrously oh the Manchu Throne, bedight as Emperor of China. This cartoon, it was hoped, would "inflame the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: New Government | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

Shoulder to shoulder in the new Canton Government with "Brains"' Chen stood a fat-faced younger man named Sun Fo who stands for "Prestige." He is the son of "the Father of the Chinese Republic,'' the late, great Dr. Sun Yatsen. Up to a few weeks ago Sun Fo was Minister of Railways in the Government of wasp-waisted President Chiang, his stepuncle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: New Government | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

That Sun has quit Chiang and gone to Chen is ominous. China is in slow ferment, with Russia helping the brew. So slow is the ferment that last week the American Congregational Mission got tired of waiting for a stable Chinese Government to emerge, ended a work of 50 years, withdrew all their missionaries from the province of Fukien. excepting Foochow, abandoned much property bought with U. S. dollars, abandoned their hospital at Shaowu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: New Government | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

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