Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your ultimatum to the Fukien rebels has expired," correspondents reminded the Nanking Government's Foreign Office spokesman last week. "Why don't Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's troops advance and fight...
Nanking troop trains continued to rush soldiers down to the Fukien front, but Generalissimo Chiang did not follow them. He developed a fresh interest in his anti-Communist campaign in Kiangsi. Meanwhile the Fukien rebels continued to demand that both Generalissimo Chiang and Nanking Premier Wang Ching-wei resign. Wang and Chiang reacted in a way which showed that Fukien and its famed 19th Route Army are gaining prestige. Said the Premier: "It is impossible for the Government to dispense with Generalissimo Chiang's services at the present juncture of the anti-Communist campaign, but if the people...
Eldest Daughter Ailing ("Pleasant") Soong is the Sibyl of the clan. She approved the hot haste in which Old Charlie married off Second Sister Ching-ling ("Happy") to First President Sun. Years later when Dr. Sun was dead and when Generalissimo Chiang, once a secretary of Dr. Sun, had conquered all China, "Pleasant" said: "We Soongs can make much of this man." Though he was a Buddhist with concubines and the Soongs are Christians, she approved when Chiang put aside his concubines and married Youngest Sister Mei-ling ("Beautiful"). Meanwhile "Pleasant" herself had married the 75th lineal descendant of Confucius...
Month ago Generalissimo Chiang and Brother-in-law T. V. quarreled (TIME, Nov. 6) with the result that Mr. Soong resigned as Finance Minister. He was replaced by the Generalissimo's other Brother-in-law, Dr. Kung. But in Chinese finance there is no such thing as replacing T. V. Soong. Dr. Kung is amiable and highly esteemed, less clever than his wife "Pleasant." Mr. Soong is the only man who ever balanced China's budget (TIME, Jan. 2), the only Chinese Finance Minister who ever held his country's extravagant militarists in check. Unfortunately Soong...
...Chiang, Commander-in-Chief...