Word: chen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chiang's master stroke had been to keep bargaining with the Southerners until after his Nationalist Central Executive Committee had met in Nanking. There last fortnight, with an appearance of democratic, parliamentary unanimity, they were forced by Chiang to outlaw the South's front man, General Chen Chi-tang, popular, slow-witted Big Boss of Canton. Meanwhile Chiang had found the weak link in Chen's army of 500,000 men-a subsidiary war lord in immediate command of Chen's shock troops of the First Kwangtung Army. This traitorous officer was coaxed to Nanking, appointed...
...White House, last week was a week of visits. President Roosevelt and Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau sipped tea one afternoon with Mr. Chen, Mr. Koo, Mr. Kuo and Ambassador Sze, emissaries of China, who were there to make polite inquiries about the future of their country, inasmuch as the New Deal had seen fit to boost the price of silver so high as to force China off the silver standard.* Another set of callers included Vice President Garner, Senator Fletcher of Florida and Senator Brown of New Hampshire, who sought the President's help in concocting a measure...
...Current dealings with Major General Kenji Doihara leave him no time for such books as that carried by the real man in the picture. The book happens to be a Bible, and the man himself deserves a greater place in U. S. hearts than Warlord Sung. He is Yao Chen-yuan, 80-year-old Chinese Christian, sole known survivor of the four native messengers who got through (and the dozen who didn't) with messages to Tientsin asking relief for the besieged legations in Peking during the Boxer Rebellion. Disguised as a beggar, Yao made the 90-mile trip...
...thanks to Associated Pressman White for putting Christian Yao Chen-yuan back on his pious pedestal.-ED. Reviewing General...
...spontaneous Chinese movement for autonomy" was set up fortnight ago when 25 counties were proclaimed an Autonomous Government by one Mr. Yin Ju-keng, a Chinese with a prominent Japanese brother-in-law. Orders to arrest Mr. Yin were telegraphed by Generalissimo Chiang last week to General Shang Chen, Governor of Hopei Province. Unable to arrest Mr. Yin, General Shang announced that he blamed himself entirely for everything and in deepest shame would resign "because of illness contracted from stove- gas in my residence." Not to be put off with stove-gas, Generalissimo Chiang meanwhile wired from Nanking asking goat...