Word: china
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Slim, wasp-waisted, high-strung President Chiang Kai-shek of China seemed to crack suddenly under the strain of the Sino-Russian crisis one day last week. At a meeting of the Cabinet at Nanking he wrung his small bony hands and wailed out despairingly one of the most remarkable speeches ever made by a Chief Executive on the eve of war. "Tell me the reason," began Chiang excitedly, "tell me why Soviet Russia can oppress our people...
What was the reason for such frenzied Presidential "rallying"? Without presuming to guess, observers noted as significant that last week the supreme command of the Soviet forces threatening China was entrusted to a Comrade-Commander who, paradoxically, once served in the Chinese Revolution as staff adviser to Marshal (now President) Chiang Kaishek. The Comrade-Commander is Vassili Constan-tinovitch Blücher, onetime oiler of Tsarist locomotives, today the most important man in Asia...
...northern frontiers China seemed girding for war last week (see below), but 1,200 miles to the south a victory for peace was scored by the famed House of Soong, the Chinese bankers who hold the purse strings and often dictate the policy of the Nationalist Government...
Fortnight ago Banker T. V. Soong told his brother-in-law President Chiang Kai-shek that China's huge military establishment must be curtailed. Otherwise, he said, not even the House of Soong could keep China's treasury from going bankrupt. When President Chiang-onetime field marshal and conqueror of all China-hesitated to yield, Banker Soong handed in his resignation as Finance Minister, was soon and repeatedly begged by the President to withdraw it, refused (TIME, Aug. 19). Last week the brothers-in-law held a further series of earnest conferences at Shanghai. In the end Banker...
...broke the "underlying cause" would be China's banishment of Russians employed on the Chinese-Eastern railway jointly owned by China and Russia (TIME, July 22, et seq.). Moscow denies Nanking's charge that the Russian employes had been hatching "terrorist plots...