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Tokyo wiseacres were not impressed. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist Government dare not admit an agreement with Russia, for a great proportion of the Chinese Dictator's power comes from the Western world's belief that he and his regime are the chief bulwarks against Communism in Eastern
China. Yet the generalissimo has accepted Russian money before, and his Foreign Minister Chang Chun was once a member of the Canton Revolutionary Government...
...Generalissimo Chiang is reported to be up-country "fighting Chinese Communists" against whom ''his victories have been many" (TIME, Feb. 24). My father is living in this up-country section-his residence for thirty years -in its most Communist-infested area. He has escaped from the Communists twice within the last twelve months, once in one of Chiang Kai-shek's military planes-piloted by a young Iowan-and once afoot, mere yards ahead of the Red vanguard. His latest letter, dated in January, warns me that despite all I may read, "no Communist army...
Thus replied genial Jim Farley, generalissimo of the Democratic party, to a question about the Republican nominee for president next November...
Last week Nanking's Premier and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek got a telegram from Inner Mongolia that cheered him. It purported to be from one Yun Chih-hsien, who claimed that he was leading a great rebellion against Prince Te. "My men are patriots," Yun trumpeted, "and absolutely opposed to Prince Te's pro-Japanese policy." This might have meant much or nothing, but one thing Premier Chiang read plainly between the lines of the telegram: There would be no Inner Mongol rebellion unless Nanking forked out some cash...