Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finally seemed safe for her to return from abroad last week and back she came. Kidnapper Chang, having been sentenced to ten years, then pardoned but deprived of his civil rights for five years, had these rights restored to him last week by order of Kidnappee Chiang Kai-shek and Nanking wiseacres thought Chang would soon be War Minister...
...Dictator Chiang, whose favorite means of assuring himself that he is still The Boss is abjectly to resign "all my offices," did so again last week and was expected to resign at least once more. This was good Chinese tactics since the often-postponed Kuomintang Central Executive Committee- roughly corresponding to a Chinese parliament or assembly -was at last meeting in Nanking and it behooved the Dictator to intimate politely that he is a miserable worm, thus provoking exquisitely complimentary replies...
...feature of the kidnapping at Sian was that Kidnappee Chiang let Kidnapper Chang read his daily diary for the past year. Last week, in an abridged pamphlet form, the Dictator's diary was distributed to all Kuomintang delegates with ironclad injunctions to secrecy. It was supposed to prove to the Kuomintang, just as it was previously supposed to have proved to Kidnapper Chang, that the Kidnappee-Dictator never was a sell-out to Japan but in his daily thoughts and deeds is a true, brave Chinese. Dictator & Mme Chiang made their first joint world radio broadcast last week...
...Chiang has a most violently outspoken and un-Christian sister in Mme Sun Yatsen, widow of the founder of the Kuomintang. It was established with money from Moscow, though Founder Sun tried unsuccessfully to borrow elsewhere first. Since Dr. Sun was an unpractical visionary, his death in 1925 greatly advantaged the Kuomintang, enabled such practical leaders as China's present Dictator to turn the memory of Sun into a high-powered political cult, resembling the Communist cult of Lenin. In 1927 practical Chiang broke sharply with Moscow. Last week what he seemed to be doing behind...
...spiritual life of the Church through a Forward Movement. The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is trying to do like wise and to liquidate a $385,000 mission ary debt through a Bishop's Crusade, to which the most notable response to date has come from China's Chiang Kai-shek & wife who promise $1,000 in gold. Last week the Methodist Episcopal Church passed its first milestone in a campaign not only to raise $6,000,000 for the Church's work at home and abroad but also to revitalize, modernize and stream line the faith...