Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have quietly left Hankow, where his Government continued to organize resistance to the Japanese, and arrived in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. There he was greeted by Mme Kung, her brother, No. 1 Chinese Financier T. V. Soong, and her famed sisters, Chinese Air Force Chief Mme Chiang Kai-shek and Mme Sun Yatsen, widow of the sainted "Father of the Chinese Republic...
...sending more & more Government paraphernalia on upriver to Chungking, where figurehead Chinese President Lin Sen established himself directly after he left Nanking. Japanese planes bombed several Yangtze River cities between Nanking and Hankow last week, dropped leaflets in Wuchang across the river from Hankow reading: "Chinese! Your Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is a beaten wolf. He is at the end of his rope...
...week by Journalist Jim Marshall, a survivor of the sunken U. S. S. Panay. Japanese with whom Mr. Marshall talked en route told him they are afraid their country will "crack" this spring, because it has so over-extended itself in China. "In my personal opinion Generalissimo and Mrs. Chiang are all washed up as a dominant influence in Central China," said Mr. Marshall, adding with reference to Japanese overextension: "If the Japanese take Hankow, I am afraid that both China and Japan are through...
...classes of the Chinese, destroying the social order of the country and endangering the stability of East Asia!" He found it "most lamentable . . . for the sake of the rest of Asia as a whole, as well as for the people of China" that the Chinese Government of Generalissimo Chiang have been "unable to act wisely and well with calm judgment but . . . are even now calling for prolonged resistance, regardless of the plight of 400 million people of China, whom they have plunged into the depths of suffering and misery...
Whenever, in Queen Victoria's day. a recalcitrant Maharaja showed himself as "blind," "unrepentant" and "desperate", as Chiang Kai-shek is now (to use Mr. Hirota's adjectives), British subjects had to discharge their duty by recognizing some other Indian as his rightful successor, and Mr. Hirota indicated that this is exactly what Japan is in course of doing in China: "Our Government now look forward to the establishment and growth of the new Chinese regime capable of genuine co-operation with Japan which it is our intention to assist in the building...