Word: kai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Slim, wasp-waisted, high-strung President Chiang Kai-shek of China seemed to crack suddenly under the strain of the Sino-Russian crisis one day last week. At a meeting of the Cabinet at Nanking he wrung his small bony hands and wailed out despairingly one of the most remarkable speeches ever made by a Chief Executive on the eve of war. "Tell me the reason," began Chiang excitedly, "tell me why Soviet Russia can oppress our people...
...President Chiang Kai-shek ordered a $1,000,000 "credit for war supplies" placed at the disposal of his field commander in Manchuria, Marshal Chang Hsueh-lian...
Fortnight ago Banker T. V. Soong told his brother-in-law President Chiang Kai-shek that China's huge military establishment must be curtailed. Otherwise, he said, not even the House of Soong could keep China's treasury from going bankrupt. When President Chiang-onetime field marshal and conqueror of all China-hesitated to yield, Banker Soong handed in his resignation as Finance Minister, was soon and repeatedly begged by the President to withdraw it, refused (TIME, Aug. 19). Last week the brothers-in-law held a further series of earnest conferences at Shanghai. In the end Banker...
Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek ripped open at Nanking last week an urgent telegram from Governor Chang Hsueh-liang of Manchuria: "THE SITUATION IS GROWING GRAVER EVERY MINUTE. I REQUEST INSTRUCTIONS WITH REGARD TO DEALING WITH PROVOCATIVE AND BELLIGERENT SOVIET TROOPS IN AN APPROPRIATE MANNER...
...Tokyo a Japanese newspaper gilded the lily with a story of how slain Prince Hsien Kai had probably been attentive to one of Chang's numerous "wives." Wrote the ingenious Tokyo editor: "Chang, who at one time has had as many as 40 wives, could not bear, the police believe, to see anyone take liberties with even one of them...