Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tortoise-shell glasses. Married 14 months ago, Mrs. Stam had her first child, a girl, by a caesarean operation, last September. Outposters of the interdenomi national China Inland Mission, they taught the way of the Lord in Tsingteh in Southern Anhwei Province, 200 miles from Nanking, which is Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's stronghold of law & order...
Last month Generalissimo Chiang an nounced that he had "broken the backbone of Communism in China" by chasing the Communists out of Kiangsi Province. Nanking authorities added that nearby districts were "safe." Nonetheless, a band of Communists bobbed up at Tsingteh and kidnapped Mr. and Mrs. Stam and Daughter Helen Priscilla. One morning last week the Communists paraded the two missionaries through the muddy streets of a nearby village, then slashed off their heads with a great curved sword, supposedly in a shrewd effort to embarrass Generalissimo Chiang. A Chinese Christian pastor found the Stams' baby girl alive...
...From Chiang's point of view, however, the four ancient virtues mean even more: ch'ih, patriotism; lien, morality; i, social sense or the exact opposite of its English meaning, and li, discipline-the four cardinal virtues of any nationalistic State. Says Chiang...
Chinese must relearn, says Chiang, one by one and all together, the breeze's four virtues: li, i, lien...
...spreading the New Life Movement, the Outline lays down the rule that "no contribution shall be raised from the public." Instead, working down from Generalissimo Chiang himself, "the movement should be started first from oneself and gradually be extended to others. It should be started with simple matters (good manners and cleanliness) and gradually extended. . . . [Thus] it is hoped that rudeness and vulgarity will...