Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South China after three months of the most ferocious verbal strife between the Nanking Government and Kwangsi Province, with a formal military ultimatum being issued every few days by Premier Chiang to the Kwangsi generals or vice versa, sudden peace came this week. Instead of Generalissimo Chiang arriving in Canton with overwhelming force to master Kwangsi, he persuaded Kwangsi General Li Tsung-Jen to assume the office of Pacification Commissioner of Kwangsi under instructions from Nanking to pacify himself thoroughly and send no more ultimatums. Only logical assumption was that Li had finally got out of Chiang the bribe running...
...diligently prayerful Methodist and a tireless preacher of Spartan virtues to indulgent Chinese is enterprising Premier and Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, the best man to head the Chinese Government in living memory. Last week he connected the Chicago of his country with its New Orleans, sent the first train chuffing 700 miles over the new line from Hankow to Canton. Years ago Chiang set out from Canton with no railway to carry the troops of his Revolution, plunged overland to seize Hankow and then fought his way down the great River Yangtze to establish his Government in its present seat, Nanking...
...wisdom of these thoughts prevailed in London, and the British Boxer Indemnity Trustees accordingly have aided Premier Chiang to complete a railway each of whose 700 miles may be regarded as representing just so many less Chinese students. In Oriental Affairs suave Editor Woodhead led the way for editors in the British Empire generally to call the completed railway "a gift from the British taxpayer to the Chinese people...
Last week the new railway was a symbol of the genuine Progress achieved under Chiang's party which calls itself the Kuomintang. Japan forced dissolution of all locals of the Knomintang in North China last year (TIME, Dec. 2). Last week the Tokyo dailies declared that the Japanese Army now demands that Premier Chiang dissolve the locals of the Kuomintang in all China. In the North the local regime in Hopei and Chahar Provinces established by Chinese under Japanese auspices last week took for itself the kind of autonomy which in China matters most, autonomy in collecting and keeping...
...Soong, in addition to being General Manager of the China Development Finance Corp., which looms as a nation-wide enterprise under Generalissimo Chiang's powerful protection, is Managing Director of the great Manufacturers Bank of China, one of whose most important branches is in teeming Canton. Thither T. L. Soong arranged to go last week as "Financial Commissioner" with a great retinue of Chinese bankers, including directors of the country's three government banks...