Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Japan, in effect, repeated her maneuver of the Twenty-One Demands, and again every Japanese official had instructions to deny everything in sight. They first denied that Japan is pressing fresh demands upon China's wasp-waisted little Dictator, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. What actually happened last week, Japanese insisted, was that Generalissimo Chiang of his own volition invited to a secret conference at Nanking the Japanese Minister to China, suave, hearty Akira Ariyoshi and the Japanese Military Attache, exceedingly pugnacious Lieut. General Yoshimichi Suzuki...
...most important purposes of Chinese Dictator Chiang Kai-shek's personal tour through Northern China was to buy with elaborate bribes the loyalty of Mongolian princes in Chahar. Chahar would be important to Japan not only as a future base for the invasion of Northern China, but also as a prime point on the strategic caravan route to outer Mongolia and Russia. The brief & bloody capture of this little corner of disputed territory last week was an obvious Japanese threat to Mongol chieftains to mind their manners. Nanking's complaisance was a fair admission that China...
...wandering Sheean arrived in Shanghai just after Chiang Kai-shek had split with the Communist-dominated wing of the Kuomintang and made peace with the Western powers. Two governments existed in China after that-the Nationalist of Nanking, dedicated to making China a Middle-Class country, and the so-called Communist government at Hankow, where Borodin and Madame Sun Yat-sen stood in the wings, hoping to "proclaim the Soviet," but never getting a chance. Sheean saw Borodin daily, was impressed by the man's philosophy, the "long view" of the theoretical Marxist who regarded immediate events as meaningless...
...Nanking Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek insists that "officially" Chinese Settlement Day, same as Chinese New Year's, is "unofficial." Actually on that day, which falls this year on Feb. 4, every due debt in China must be paid or the debtor irretrievably loses face...
...bales of petitions to Nanking, begged their Government to give them at least temporary relief from Roosevelt by announcing that Settlement Day is postponed for one year. Until very recently the Nanking Government's prestige was far too low for chambers of commerce to dream of asking Generalissimo Chiang to proclaim relief from an old Chinese custom made intolerable by the New Deal...