Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seventy-five miles north of the City of Peiping zigzags the Great Wall across China. Despite Japan's loud assurances to the world that their armies would stay north of it, they crossed it in March, feinted back fortnight ago toward the Russian border. At once Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek stampeded his soldiers into the empty villages the Japanese had evacuated. His 50,000 became "truculent," claimed a grand Chinese victory. Last week the Japanese Foreign Office called this situation "ambiguous," "intolerable." It announced Japan had already given "the only warnings that will be given of the outbreak...
...Battle of Shanghai, announced that he was moving 8,000 of his best men to northern Kwantung province where they would join other Cantonese and Southern troops and advance against the Japanese. Foreign correspondents expected this move to be more effective in blasting the prestige of Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek than in driving Japan from Jehol...
...Hsueh-liang and his 17 "secretaries" from Shanghai last week also bore Benito Mussolini's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Minister to China, going home for a vacation. Earlier in the week he had put the finishing touches to a deal started some months ago when Chiang Kai-shek's brother-in-law H. H. Kung visited Rome. Still owing the Italian Government is a balance of $2,000,000 in gold from the Boxer indemnity squeezed from the old Empress Dowager in 1901. It was agreed last week that this balance should be devoted...
Instead of being called Soviets the various councils which comprise the Nanking Government are called yuans. As in Russia the so-called "President" (Mr. Lin Sen) and so-called "Premier" (Mr. Wang Ching-wei) are of scant importance, effective power being centred nationally in Generalissimo Chiang and his Brother-in-law Finance Minister Dr. Sung Tse-wen, better known as T. V. Soong. Locally the Chinese people's talent for "muddling through" provides law & order under the regional dictatorships of War Lords like famed Han Fu-chu of Shantung Province (TIME...
Until recently a majority of Chinese newspapers flayed Generalissimo Chiang as a coward and a traitor, first because he sent no troops to help the heroic Chinese 19th Route Army at Shanghai, second because his foreign policy has been non-declaration of war on Japan and trust in the League of Nations. Last week Chiang had a slightly better Chinese Press because-though few if any Chinese expected him to fight Japan-the Generalissimo might change his mind. Burning with their country's shame, thousands of Chinese students yearned to fight, passionately discussed the whole ghastly situation in round...