Word: kaies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chiang Kai-shek graduated from Wellesley in the class...
...reshuffled in a Communist direction, with increasingly radical Chinese statesmen being given more and more influential posts. Although Japanese were extremely nervous, watching Chinese developments catlike, their Embassy spokesman in Shanghai said: "I do not think the situation will immediately take a serious turn. Remember that Chiang Kai-shek only got where he is today by pursuing a strong anti-Communist program, and we do not believe he will become sincerely proCommunist. Nor do we think the Soviets will give him much aid, because his anti-Communist record of so many years is against him in Moscow. We forecast that...
...Eastern Asia, ten years of butchering Communists and belaboring local satraps into submission were climaxed in 1936 by Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek when his China, for the first time, stopped yielding to Japan's more impossible demands and adopted a policy which could be called "strong" (TIME, Nov. 9). Premier Chiang might well have been Man of the Year had he not, at the zenith of his prestige, been suddenly kidnapped...
...their cables this week, seasoned China correspondents had an adjective for the way in which the kidnapping of Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was ended, and that adjective was "preposterous." In any Occidental sense it was preposterous that the 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...
...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...