Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sugar and cement. Last week the commander of the ten Japanese destroyers, which came zipping into Swatow and proceeded to indulge in spectacular searchlight drills every night, demanded that the smuggled goods be returned to the Japanese smugglers and that all Swatow duties on such goods be hereafter canceled. Chiang Goes West. With frightened local authorities at Hankow and Swatow obliged to accede to Japan's demands, the National Government at Nanking clung like patriotic limpets to the position they have dexterously maintained for several years between the barbs of China's excruciating dilemma. They might have bankrupt...
Instead, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has pocketed pride to strive for the betterment and consolidation of Central China, not immediately menaced by Japan. Some 300 miles south of Nanking at Nanchang in the fastness of Kiangsi Province he also established one of the greatest fighting air bases in the Far East. Last week this seat of Chinese air power-aviation being the sole arm in which China begins to have strength-was being transferred 1,400 miles west to Chengtu in almost totally inaccessible Szechwan Province. This move by Generalissimo Chiang resembles that of Soviet Dictator Stalin in establishing strategic...
Hors-d'oeuvre to this gigantic meal must be, according to the General, China's sole official political party, the Kuomintang (National People's Party), and China's Dictator, General Chiang Kaishek. These must be "overthrown...
...days later Honest Wang leaped from bed, withdrew his resignation, traveled 500 miles from Tsingtao to Nanking. There Premier Wang and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek agreed to stick together a while longer at their exciting game of running a pro-Japanese Chinese Government...
...freed Chinese farmers from 4,100 items of extortionate and illegal tax levies" since he became Finance Minister. As the brothers-in-law got busy, their cruiser anchoring in the safe middle of the river off Kuling, they were joined by the Chinese Ambassador to Japan. General Chiang Tso-pin, and the former Chinese satrap of what is now Manchukuo. the ''Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang. For months the Chinese statesmen who thus met last week have been playing Japan's game. Each fears sudden Death at the hands of some patriotic Chinese, and the purpose...