Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has fought the fire of Communismin China by wetting down the ground with his New Life Movement. "Water," he quotes, " always flows over a wet surface; while fire goes wherever it is dry.'' Last week westerners were reading the free English translation of his Outline of The New Life Movement made by his U. S.-educated, banged-browed wife, youngest daughter of China's famed Soong family...
Lean, high-strung Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, big boss of the young Chinese Nationalist Government, worries mightily about the old Chinese virtues of his people. What time he can spare from Communism, Famine, Flood, and Japan he devotes to a moral crusade of his own invention known as the New Life Movement. Neatly codified, the N. L. M. contains such rules...
...from happy to receive this petition was President Lin, who does what he is told by Generalissimo Chiang and tries fervently to keep out of military squabbles. Not knowing where General Ho's request for demotion might lead, President Lin replied with a noncommittal letter of effusive commendation which left Ho still a full general. Last week his brilliant subordinate, Lieut.-General Tsow Tsohua, one of China's crack artillery commanders, raised the whole issue again by petitioning to be demoted to the rank of colonel...
...rival of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek in schemes to make Chinese more virtuous (see above) is cocky Cantonese Admiral Chang Chi-ying. Not long ago he disrupted a new-style Cantonese custom, forbade mixed bathing, proclaimed the slogan "Feminine Curves Shall Not Be Seen By Men!" Last week rueful Cantonese prepared to observe a yet more obnoxious ban: "Mixed walking in public," decreed the Canton Government, "is not compatible with the old virtues and must cease...
...statesman, General Tsai has no patience with what he considers to be Generalissimo Chiang's policy of "selling out" China to Japan little by little, thus gaining respite in which to organize and unify China's factions in the vast territory which is left. With passionate invective, firing his points explosively in Chinese like cannon balls, Tsai accused Chiang of a series of machinations to destroy the 19th Route Army as the spearhead of Chinese resistance to Japan...