Word: kai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conqueror" Chiang Kai-shek whose nationalist armies recently swept across one-half of China, (TIME, Sept. 29, 1926 et req.) returned last week, a man abased and fallen, to his home and birthplace, the little village of Fenghwa, 100 miles south of Shanghai...
Meanwhile Occidental correspondents at Shanghai were sweating with Chinese interpreters over a momentous 7,000-word document? the official resignation of Chiang Kai-shek as Generalissimo of the Nationalist armies...
...Chiang Kai-shek went on to claim that the Nationalists have now been purged of Communism largely through his own efforts; but concluded that so much bitterness existed among nationalists against him personally that "I should have resigned last spring. Therefore I am willing to sacrifice my own position in order to see the revolution succeed...
While these high principled statements probably came honestly from a man of such reputed nobility of character as Chiang Kai-shek the immediate cause of his resignation last week was simply the recent series of defeats which his armies have suffered in their attempt to take Peking (TIME, March...
...declared that "three roads" now lie before China: 1) "The road to Communism" which, Sun Fo declared, has now been utterly abandoned by his party; 2) "The road to Fascism," now being followed, said Sun Fo, by his one-time ally the "traitor-militarist" Chiang Kai-shek (See above); and 3) "The road to Nationalism," as originally pointed out by the late, sainted...