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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boards through their Committee on Relief in China last week began a drive for $5,000,000 for the next year's work.* From China the committee received proof that missionary labors tire now not unappreciated in high places. In a speech to missionaries in Hankow, Mme Chiang Kai-shek revealed that her husband, as a gesture of gratitude, had lifted an eleven-year ban upon compulsory religious courses in Chinese mission schools. Said she: "I am very glad to tell you that those who criticized you and criticized Christianity in years past are the ones who are articulate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Chiang's Gesture | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

Neutral observers and hydraulic engineers in China were appalled by reports that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was debating whether to create a supreme diversion by ordering dynamited the principal dikes of the Yellow River, famed for ages as "China's Sorrow," upon which the American Red Cross alone has spent over $1,000,000 for flood control and famine relief in this area. Such dynamiting, experts warned, would inundate lands now inhabited by 40,000,000 Chinese and, while it would engulf large Japanese forces, might well rank as the greatest man-made catastrophe in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: New Phase | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

From Hankow headquarters of Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week correspondents received information which threw a revealing light upon Soviet aid to China in the past ten months. At one time a "majority" of all pilots flying for China were Soviet pilots, flying mostly Soviet planes. The Chinese claimed last week that they have been bartering tea with Moscow in exchange for bombers, that the transaction has been "completed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tea for Bombers | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...Generalissimo as correspondents looked blank: "The activities of the Chinese Nazi Party have been concealed from the general public during the few years of its existence. Its Führer is Carson Chang who was educated in Japan and Germany." Führer Chang's brother, Chang Kai-ngau, is the Chinese Communications Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: F | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

They were spurred by a rousing, nationwide radio address by Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek entitled "Why I believe in Jesus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Inexcusable Blunder | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

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