Word: kai-shek
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...regrettable that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek still opposes our ideas. So long as he remains opposed he shall remain at Sian in order to think it over at his leisure. I personally guarantee his safety and hope he will agree with our policy...
...hundreds of millions of lips last week was the name of a most unhappy woman, Mme 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...
...went on to describe how the kidnapped Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had been attempting to divide the armies an lessen the power of Marshal Chang Hseu-liang, former Manchurian warlord, and stated that if harm befell Chiang Kai-shek, a state of anarchy would ensue that might retard for 25 years the development of China...
Last week Nanking was roaring at the latest exploit of Chinese Foreign Minister Chang Chun in "kidding" the Imperial Japanese Government. Tokyo had demanded that Japanese troops be permitted to join the anti-Communist forces of Chinese Premier and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in any Chinese province into which these may be sent (TIME, Nov. 9). To this demand China's Chang replied that, while it would be premature for China to grant such rights to Japan in all Chinese provinces, the Chinese Government would permit Japanese military co-operation in assisting it to exterminate Communism and banditry...
...statesmen who were wringing their hands and cursing Roosevelt not many months ago joined in expressing joy at the President's reelection. For one thing, Mr. Roosevelt played Santa Claus to China with the thumping U.S.-China cotton Ioan. Proceeds of this are being used by Premier Chiang Kai-shek for public works projects in China as novel and ambitious for that country as the PWA. For another thing, the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury still controls the price of silver, which is a matter of life & death to China...