Word: chen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last few years the Nanking Government has paid a subsidy to the rival Canton Government which has always taken the money while pulsating with opposition-now secret, now blatant-to Generalissimo Chiang. Last week Canton's blatancy became a scream as her Government, headed by General Chen Chi-tang, who had just received an especially large subsidy in the hope of squaring him, telegraphed to Nanking a demand that the Generalissimo resign...
...deathless defense of Shanghai (TIME, Feb 22. 1932, et seq.) What is left of the Old 19th, brought up to full strength by new recruits, will fight under General Tsai. More important, the new Fukien Government has as its "brains" that amazing man of South Chinese politics, Eugene Chen. It was he who provided the potential menace to Nanking's authority, he who caused Chiang to rush from his Council of Generals and mobilize his best troops to be led by himself against Fukien...
Hard, hot-eyed, taciturn Eugene Chen looks like Nikolai Lenin disguised as Rudyard Kipling. He was born in British Trinidad, got his start at the London bar and according to his many Chinese enemies "cannot speak or write Chinese...
...Soviet Sore Spot" (TIME, April 27, 1931), pululating with Chinese Communist generals. Should they enter into friendly relations with Fukien they would have for the first time a direct and easy access to the sea. Ominous seemed the fact that the Foreign Minister of the Fukien Government is notorious Chen Yu-jen (Eugene Chen), long the Communistically inclined stormy petrel of South China politics. As War Minister the new state has General Tsai Ting-kai, famed commander of the 19th Route Army in its deathless defense of Shanghai (TIME, Feb. 22, 1932). Governor Li Chai-sum of Kwangsi Province...
Probably War Lord Feng was bluffing but his words produced the effect sure to follow when Chinese hear a leader of their race actually grow bold enough to threaten Japan. The Canton Government of South China headed by General Chen Chi-tang promptly pitched into the Nanking Government "of all China" headed by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek who has made a truce with Japan (TIME, June 5). In view of this truce. Generalissimo Chiang had dispatched 60,000 troops to quell War Lord Feng, only to receive demands from General Chen that he call them back. "Canton," wired Canton...