Word: kaies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tokyo wiseacres were not impressed. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist Government dare not admit an agreement with Russia, for a great proportion of the Chinese Dictator's power comes from the Western world's belief that he and his regime are the chief bulwarks against Communism in Eastern
...against whom ''his victories have been many" (TIME, Feb. 24). My father is living in this up-country section-his residence for thirty years -in its most Communist-infested area. He has escaped from the Communists twice within the last twelve months, once in one of Chiang Kai-shek's military planes-piloted by a young Iowan-and once afoot, mere yards ahead of the Red vanguard. His latest letter, dated in January, warns me that despite all I may read, "no Communist army has yet been defeated in Kweichow:" the Reds countermarch where they please, occasionally...
Last week Nanking's Premier and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek got a telegram from Inner Mongolia that cheered him. It purported to be from one Yun Chih-hsien, who claimed that he was leading a great rebellion against Prince Te. "My men are patriots," Yun trumpeted, "and absolutely opposed to Prince Te's pro-Japanese policy." This might have meant much or nothing, but one thing Premier Chiang read plainly between the lines of the telegram: There would be no Inner Mongol rebellion unless Nanking forked out some cash...
...Nanking last week the Chinese Government, reorganized with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek as Premier, were in daily diplomatic, negotiation with the Japanese Government, trying to save what they could. It appeared certain that North China would not obey Nanking's order to ship all silver stocks to the Capital, because 1) Japan would not permit her prospective new puppet state to be drained of silver, and 2) North Chinese owners of silver prefer to keep it in North China, no matter who governs the area...
Since General Doihara and his Japanese Army crowd had openly threatened to hurl in their troops at any such "Chinese provocation" and since they did not hurl them last week, Chinese enjoyed briefly a feeling of exhilaration. Then Ambassador Ariyoshi bustled around, hinting to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek that the discomfited Japanese Army clique is so powerful that Japan's civilian Cabinet members have to be careful. After much haggling the Ambassador emerged to whisper to Japanese correspondents that Generalissimo Chiang, while opposing secession of the five provinces in the strongest terms, had promised a "compromise...