Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between them, three years ago they performed one of the most extraordinary military feats of modern times: the great 2,000 mile retreat of a Communist army-cut off from supplies, living off the country, constantly harassed by the greatly superior forces of Chiang Kai-shek-from Fukien through western China to Shensi Province, where they set up another Communist state...
...this caused considerable amusement to veteran foreign correspondents in China. Believing that Chiang Kai-shek's long war with Chinese Communists showed a sincere hatred of Communism everywhere, Germany long ago lent him a corps of military advisers. Five generals, headed by General Baron Alexander Ernst von Falkenhausen, World War veteran, one-time German military attache at Tokyo, were in China last week. Distinctly possible was it that General von Falkenhausen may soon find himself sitting side by side at a staff conference with a group of Red Army Communists...
Meantime 100 mi. south in Peiping, captured month ago by Japan, Chinese Mayor Chiang Chao-sung was submissively taking his orders from, Tokyo. Wily Japanese scheme for China's former "Northern Capital" was to reintroduce the Confucian rites of the old Imperial Court. Under the nationalist regime of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his Christian, Wellesley-educated wife, Confucianism has practically disappeared from China, but there are many conservative Chinese who resented the change. In 1932 the Japanese found it a shrewd move to restore Confucian worship when they established the new state of Manchukuo where the population...
...vast astonishment of the Tokyo press corps last week, that usually suave diplomat, Foreign Minister Koki Hirota, took the gloves off and bluntly explained that the real purpose of Japan's expeditionary force is not to conquer China, but to kick out Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. In words chosen with far less tact than his sovereign was about to use to explain the Sino-Japanese War, Mr. Hirota observed: "We are fighting anti-Japanese movements in China. These exist largely in the Chinese Army, and General Chiang Kai-shek is their spearhead. The leaders of present-day China have...
...reached Shanghai from Tokyo that the Chinese Ambassador, old Hsu Shih-ying, had padded up to Japanese Foreign Minister Hirota's office, expressed a desire on behalf of China to arrange a non-aggression pact with Japan. T. V. Soong, former finance minister of China, now one of Chiang Kai-shek's advisers, when informed of the proposal repudiated his Government's representative in about the time it takes to say chicken chow mein. He snorted: "Our Ambassador in Japan is an innocuous old gentleman talking on general principles when thousands of Chinese lives are being lost...