Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even the patience of Uncle Donald was sorely tried. He was said in some dispatches last week to have been for years mainly an adviser of Dictator Chiang but the facts are that his career has been as adviser to the Young Marshal, plus merely friendly relations with T. V. Soong who is the Dictator's brother-in-law, up to three years ago. He then attached himself to Chiang, while continuing to advise Chang. It was possible that at Sian wise Uncle Donald was trying to be as impartial and simply pro-Chinese as he knew...
...been risking his life by his refusal to speak with desperate men, spoke-nay, he conversed. This conversation, like that of Mr. Baldwin and King Edward, was not so much about the tremendous issues at stake as about money. Of course Young Chang did not threaten to kill Dictator Chiang unless he was paid a given sum. That would have been nonsense. The position of each of these two Chinese was of such eminence and power that a few million dollars more or less was not to them what it is to the Duke of Windsor. By "money" they understood...
...Dictator Chiang has for so many years played such a tedious waiting game that the Young Marshal, when he publicly demanded as part of the "ransom" fortnight ago that the Nanking Government speed up and declare war on Japan, was voicing the aspiration of millions of Chinese The announced policy of the kidnapper is so exceedingly popular-even if it is an ex-dope's not too bright idea-that almost every Chinese inevitably must be more or less drawn to it, even Dictator Chian" who knows that he cannot procrastinate forever...
...Kill Chiang? It was singular that Nanking-censored dispatches should carry reports that the Dictator's wife, Mme Chiang, was out of sympathy with the manner in which her brother-in-law, Acting Premier Kung, was handling the situation last week. He sent thousands of troops hurrying to attempt to encircle Sian, and he claimed there was extreme need of haste because Chinese Communist troops were dusting down from the interior toward Sian. The trouble with such Communists is that they are un-Chinese in important respects. If they ever laid hands on the Dictator, whose troops have killed...
...Chiang apparently was of the opinion that Dr. Kung, in trying to race the Communists to Sian with his Government troops, was likely to upset Kidnapper Chang so much that he would murder her husband instead of joining up with the Dictator in a deal to fight Japan. It was rather tactless for Dr. Kung to say of her husband in an official broadcast by the Acting Premier last week, "While we are all anxious that Generalissimo Chiang may be rescued . . . our attitude is that the personal safety of one man should not be allowed to interfere. . . . It gives...