Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little paragraph in U. S. newspapers last week was as significant to students of China as anything that has happened in Manchuria or Shanghai: the 30th and 31st Divisions of Marshal Chiang Kaishek's Nationalist Army were defeated by Communist troops in upper Yangtze Valley and prudently deserted to the Communist side...
What must be called Communism for want of a better word is the most serious problem in China proper today, a growing tumor that gaunt ex-President Chiang, now Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, must solve if the Nationalist Government is to last. Three months ago the Shanghai China Forum, radical weekly, made a survey, announced that Chinese Communists controlled 177 districts in eight provinces along the upper Yangtze. They have eight major armies totalling 151,000 well-drilled men, of whom over half are equipped with rifles. Week by week the Communists creep in a constricting ring...
...Japanese invasion of Shanghai six months ago, blew the lid off last week. First Wang Ching-wei, President of the Executive Yuan-i. e. Premier of the Nanking Government- resigned. Wang, a Cantonese, was the most belligerent of the anti-Japanese leaders of China. Long an opponent of Marshal Chiang Kaishek, whom he considers a self-centred militarist, he forgot his differences at the time of the Shanghai incident to help Chiang oppose Japan. Marshal 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...
Chinese Pandemonium broke loose when, day after the Pax Britannica was initialed, the Chinese Government of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek telegraphed orders to Chinese mayors and garrison commanders to suppress promptly and at once any anti-Japanese societies or other boycott groups in their districts...
Yours sincerely, (Signed) Chiang Kwang-nai* Ting...