Word: chiangs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week Nanking was roaring at the latest exploit of Chinese Foreign Minister Chang Chun in "kidding" the Imperial Japanese Government. Tokyo had demanded that Japanese troops be permitted to join the anti-Communist forces of Chinese Premier and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in any Chinese province into which these may be sent (TIME, Nov. 9). To this demand China's Chang replied that, while it would be premature for China to grant such rights to Japan in all Chinese provinces, the Chinese Government would permit Japanese military co-operation in assisting it to exterminate Communism and banditry...
...Chinese statesmen who were wringing their hands and cursing Roosevelt not many months ago joined in expressing joy at the President's reelection. For one thing, Mr. Roosevelt played Santa Claus to China with the thumping U.S.-China cotton Ioan. Proceeds of this are being used by Premier Chiang Kai-shek for public works projects in China as novel and ambitious for that country as the PWA. For another thing, the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury still controls the price of silver, which is a matter of life & death to China...
...50th birthday occurred the most warlike demonstrations and transports of popular enthusiasm which his Government has ever permitted itself the luxury of enjoying. If war could be declared by poster, China declared it last week with gaudy and gigantic stickers pasted up all over Nanking showing Generalissimo Chiang leaping to the top of China's Great Wall and beckoning with drawn sword for a Chinese army to follow him over the wall and into Japan's Manchukuo. The Christian birthday cake of the Dictator carried not 50 candles but replicas of 50 foreign-built bombing planes...
...though preparing for war, Generalissimo Chiang had summoned a council of China's leading military provincial governors, no longer truly called "War Lords." Often before these sly fellows have refused to come and made extravagant excuses, but last week Dictator Chiang could boast that every province in China had answered his call. Notably the famed but for several years retired "Christian Marshal" Feng Yu-hsiang showed up. together with the Big Three of North China : the "Model Governor" of Shansi, General Yen Hsi-shan; Governor General Fu Tso-yi, provincial chairman of Suiyan; and the latest admirable and exemplary...
...English translation by Christian Premier Chiang Kai-shek's second-generation Christian wife, the former Miss Mei-ling ("Mayling") Soong, Wellesley '17. It took courage for Premier Kai-shek thus to scold his 450 million countrymen, courage for him to become a Christian, and supreme courage to launch the great Chinese national movement which last week seemed about to give Asiatic history a new twist. It was as though President Roosevelt should have become a Mohammedan and prefaced his New Deal with some such words as: "Our American people seem to me a nation of jazz-loving...