Word: kaies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Merit (1st class) plus the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun with the gold & silver Medallion of the Rising Sun (with 31 rays) and the Imperial Paulownia Blossom, an affair of precious cloisonné. That was easy. Everything was easy in Tokyo last week for slightly rheumatic Guest Hsieh Kai-shih, snuff-taking Foreign Minister of Japan's new puppet state Manchukuo...
With a name that sounds like a sneeze, Hsieh Kai-shih (pronounced sheh ky-shee) set gloriously out from Manchukuo's capital fortnight ago, bedight in brand new robes of Chinese silk (TIME, Oct. 24). Hours before his train was due in Tokyo Japanese schoolmarms excused little boys and girls from classes, washed the children's hands, stuck a clean Japanese flag into each chubby fist and let the moppets off in droves to shriek "Banzai! May you live 10,000 years...
Governor Han. apparently satisfied, withdrew with his forces to Tsinan and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek could pretend that the "balance of power" in China had been maintained?by a deal. What next? Han, having much expanded his prestige by ousting Liu, may be expected to conspire with his honored guest in Shantung, the famed "Christian War Lord" Feng Yu-hsiang. onetime master of "The Largest Private Army in the World" (TIME, Sept...
...commander by invading Jehol Province (TIME, Aug. 1). Led by bombing planes, flanked by armored trains and tanks, a Japanese force under General Suzuki swept over the Jehol border from Chinchow and captured Nanling. General Tung Fu-ting, defending general, telegraphed wildly from Nanling to Nanking for reinforcements. Chiang Kai-shek did not answer. Japanese troops resting in Nanling sent a three-day ultimatum to the city of Chaoyang, 30 miles away, their objective as a base for the conquest of the whole province. As in the original invasion of Manchuria, capture of a Japanese officer, a Capt. Gonshiro Ishimoto...
...much as the top of his head out of his hole. All negotiations with Chiang's representatives he left to his small, sleek wife who rushed busily in a limousine from his hiding place to her hotel and back again. Soon correspondents thought they knew what Chiang Kai-shek was planning. In the past 50 years China has experimented with every sort of government known to the western world: absolute monarchy, constitutional monarchy, republicanism, communism, military dictatorship. With a Communist movement steadily growing in the upper Yangtze Valley (TIME, Aug. 15), the Nationalist government must do something about internal...