Word: generalissimo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chen Chien Routed. The only notable military action of the week occurred when Chiang Kaishek, onetime Generalissimo of all the Southern Nationalist armies, now War Lord of Shanghai and Nanking (TIME, March 28 et seq.) surrounded and captured 5,000 men commanded by his onetime subordinate, General Chen Chien. Despatches indicated that General Chen will be offered up to the Powers by General Chiang as a "Red" who, on his own responsibility, ordered and carried out the so-called "atrocities" against Occidentals at Nanking (TIME, April...
Nanking. Marshal Chiang Kaishek, recently Generalissimo of all the Southern (Nationalist) armies, set up a Cabinet, at Nanking, last week, to regularize his newly proclaimed government (TIME, April 25). Marshal Chiang, who represents the conservative Nationalist wing, assigned only two cabinet portfolios...
...While Foreign Minister Chen and the more radical Nationalist politicians were busy replying to notes at Hankow, the Nationalist Generalissimo, Chiang Kaishek, suddenly called a meeting of conservative Nationalists at Nanking. They voted to impeach the whole Nationalist Cabinet at Hankow on the ground that it is "Red," sparing only Foreign Minister Chen. Him they dubbed "misguided but loyal to Nationalism." C This keen blow by Chiang Kai-shek lopped off the Communist faction of Chinese Nationalism which has fattened at Hankow on Russian support. Overnight the Russian "adviser" to the Nationalist Government, Michael Borodin, went into hiding, "vanished." Then...
Since Chiang captured Shanghai the breach between himself and the Nationalist politicians at Hankow has grown so wide that it is even rumored that the Nationalist Central Executive Committee has dismissed Chiang as Generalissimo, through this he has denied...
...Chiang Kaishek, Generalissimo of the Cantonese Nationalist Army which has conquered the Southern half of China (TIME, Sept. 20 et seq.), and captured Shanghai (TIME, March...