Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Model Town. In Kenanpo the news men met aged, wily Yen Hsi-shan, an old-style but relatively progressive warlord. Once he was an enemy of Chiang Kaishek, is now his honored representative. The slippered old man, in a private's uniform, told them of his program to out smart the Communists by improving administration, lifting the lot of the peasant. But Yen's main job was to watch the Japanese, 20 miles to the east. The news men watched coolies singsong a dismantled truck up the cliff, for use on the highway leading to the static front...
Pious Paradox. Author Gayn devotes most of the latter part of Journey from the East to the new China and its new leaders. He believes that Chiang is the only man under whom China can achieve unity...
Until 1926, Chiang, was a revolutionary. Thereafter he fought the Communists as vigorously as he fought the Japs. A pious advocate of Confucian virtues, Warlord Chiang was also responsible, Gayn claims, for ten years of military bloodshed. Today, Author Gayn believes, Chiang is at once "a ruthless and intolerant man ... a pious Christian ... a canny politician ... a national unifier of the caliber of Bismarck and a petty and jealous political boss . . . consumed by a passion for power...
...Chiang's supreme test, says Author Gayn, will come when Japan is defeated and stripped of her empire - an undertaking that may not be concluded until 1948 or 1949. Then Chiang will rule "New China" - a nation that confidently sees herself as the future "mistress of Asia." But neither Japan's defeat nor a vast in crement of territory will solve China's domestic problems. Four out of five Chi nese depend upon the soil they till. Of China's 360,000,000 farmers, 200,000,000 do not own the land they cultivate; only...
Wealthy absentee landlords - often in ca hoots with local warlords and bandits -have reduced China's millions to a primitive struggle for a daily bowl of rice. The measure of Chiang's greatness, says Gayn, of his rise in stature from warlord to national leader, will be his readiness to take up the struggle against his old confreres - the political bosses and the land lords. "If [he] succeeds he will truly be come one of the world's great figures...