Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus last week spoke shrill, wasp-waisted little President Chiang Kai-shek to troops at his capital, Nanking. Shrilly he continued...
...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...
...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...
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...
...Exchange Telegraph despatch said that the new Government "has enough on hand to fight for six months." Contracts have been secured, according to this despatch, by enterprising German and Japanese firms to supply the Canton Government with $1,000,000 worth of munitions. Up to last week President Chiang had talked much at Nanking of sending soldiers by land and warships by sea to crush the "Cantonese rebels" but he had done little. The new Canton Government was getting a good start, may yet have to be recognized by the Washington "friend"' of venerable Tang...