Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundreds of millions of lips last week was the name of a most unhappy woman, Mme Chiang. Four hundred and fifty million Chinese could imagine nothing more poignant than the reported fainting and prostration of Dictator Chiang Kai-shek's wife as she sat beside a radio in her sumptuous Nanking home and heard her husband's kidnapper, the Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang (TIME, Dec. 21) broadcast from Sian in central China that his men had not only kidnapped but also murdered China's Dictator...
...fact of Mme Chiang's having fainted passed the official Nanking censor of dispatches in English. The chief censor of such dispatches is normally Mme Chiang herself. A most charming, accomplished Wellesley graduate, the Dictator's wife makes the official English translations of his speeches. He consults her in all things and it was she who drew him into the Christian faith (TIME, Nov. 3, 1930). Last week Mme Chiang, her brother T. V. Soong, who is the financial kingpin of China, and her brother-in-law, Dr. H. H. Kung, who took on the functions of Premier...
...detached the Generalissimo from his soldiers, an operation involving treachery by numerous persons, if not hundreds, for all soldiers in China ought to be the Premier's. If the Young Marshal had demanded say $50,000,000 ransom money, the whole thing would have been orthodox, for Mme Chiang is of China's great financial family, the House of Soong, and if they have not got $50,000,000 they know how to raise it on a few hours' notice "for the welfare of China" from the country's richest class...
Until facts should emerge, observers overseas could only cast about for a hypothesis which would fit the situation, and one lay ready to hand. It might be untrue but it was logical that Premier Chiang should have decided to enlist in a Chinese war against Japan the aid of that same Soviet Government which enabled him to conquer China in the first place and which only last fortnight received the slap in Moscow's face of a Japanese-German accord against Communism (TIME, Dec. 7). No stranger things happen anywhere than among Chinese generals and there were a whole...
Only the decisive assassination of Premier Chiang would raise his kidnapping much above this indicated status. Even then Young Chang might have in mind simply taking over the whole scheme, or one like it, and attempting to carry it through with a dope addict's overweening confidence in himself. To frantic Mme Chiang, who was with great difficulty prevented from flying to Sian from Nanking, the gallant young Marshal telegraphed: "Before God, I swear I have not harmed anybody. Therefore you need not worry...