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Recently-kidnapped Premier Chiang rested in quiet retirement this week and his recent kidnapper, young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, although pardoned by the Nanking Government (TIME Jan. 11) was still under such extremely heavy guard last week that it was difficult to say whether or not he was in custody...
Meanwhile, last week in Nanking the recently kidnapped Dictator and his erstwhile kidnapper, Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, held in great privacy under heavy military guard a long conference about what were described as "their private interests." That the Kidnapper and Kidnappee should have private interests was enough to prime everyone's curiosity and it was soon at bursting point. In Government circles it was said that the Young Marshal was going to be tried before the Dictator by some Chinese judges and jurors and that their verdict would be ten years in jail, followed by commutation of this...
...most powerful man in Eastern Asia should have been violently overpowered with the killing of 46 of his guards; lost his false teeth in the process; insisted upon reading the Bible during most of his 13 days' captivity at the hands of a "onetime dope fiend," Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang; and then should suddenly have returned by air to Nanking announcing that he himself was partly to blame for his own kidnapping and that the kidnappers had let him go partly because they had been much moved by reading some 50,000 words of his private daily diary covering...
...welfare of the country then anybody may consider me a traitor and may shoot me. ... If my words and deeds are in the least insincere, if I neglect the ideals of our Revolution, my soldiers may treat me as their enemy and may also shoot me. ... As you, Chang Hsueh-liang, have rectified the mistake [kidnapping] at an early stage and the crisis has not been prolonged, I believe the Nanking Government will be lenient with you. ... If I made any promises to you or signed anything while at Sian it would amount to destruction of the Chinese Nation...
...Chiang. Four hundred and fifty million Chinese could imagine nothing more poignant than the reported fainting and prostration of Dictator Chiang Kai-shek's wife as she sat beside a radio in her sumptuous Nanking home and heard her husband's kidnapper, the Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang (TIME, Dec. 21) broadcast from Sian in central China that his men had not only kidnapped but also murdered China's Dictator...