Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan's background and pursue a policy of bedseat driving, for everything depended on whether China's Dictator was now ready at last to risk in war with Japan his fine fleet of U. S. and Italian fighting planes and the German-trained Chinese regiments called "Chiang's Own." All these China's Dictator withheld from action at the time...
General Sung Cheh-Yuan himself was busy all week "negotiating" with Japanese Lieut. General Kiyoshi Kazuki. What the two of them were actually doing was waiting around to see whether General Sung's nominal superiors, the Nanking Government, were really sending north "Chiang's Own" and were in earnest about war with Japan or whether instead Nanking would tolerate the setting up of General Sung's territory as "another kuo," that is, as a Japanese puppet state, per-haps to be called Huapeikuo ("North China Country...
Neither a traitor nor a patriot but a Chinese realist, General Sung quite realized that he was at the mercy of General Kazuki unless Chinese Generalissimo Chiang should strongly back him, and this week Sung suddenly caved in, so Kazuki said. According to Japanese sources. General Sung made abject apologies for the recent fighting in North China, agreed to punish Chinese officers whose troops had fought, and confirmed that he always tries to stamp out "anti-Japanism." But all this from Sung was "verbal" and Chinese sources kept absolutely mum about what he had or had not promised Kazuki...
...Tokyo the younger, more fanatic school of Japanese militarists fumed last week that their Empire ought to defeat Soviet Russia first, objected that the whole concept of dealing with Nanking before Moscow has been settled is strategically and politically unsound. This Japanese younger school sees Stalin as ultimately behind Chiang and wants to make an end of half measures, but Japanese "Liberals" like the Premier see more wisdom in taking any number of delicate bites at the Chinese cherry. If now Generalissimo Chiang, should really hurl China's whole force against Japan, with Russian cheers behind him, the bedseat...
This week Chinese Dictator Chiang at last made his first public statement on the current Sino-Japanese crisis. "Japan will have to decide whether these clashes will result in a major war between Japan and China. If we allow one inch more of our territory to be lost we will be guilty of an unpardonable offense against our race...