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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile 27 U. S. bombing planes, newly purchased by Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, were kept thundering over Nanking, his capital, to impress last week's arriving delegates to the so-called Chinese Parliament or Central Executive Committee. This gathering's name, copied from that of the ruling body in Moscow, recalls the days when Generalissimo Chiang fought with the assistance of Communist subsidies. Today Nanking is a modern Capitalist capital and Chiang's bureaucrats keep fit with daily calisthenics dictated by his New Life Movement, appear nattily efficient and most different from the opium-soaked Chinese often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Pact, Parliament, Planes | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

Please, furthermore, publish my statement based upon authentic and reliable information that neither there exists such secret agreement between China and Russia as was referred to in the foregoing article, nor has Russian financial aid ever been accepted by General Chiang Kaishek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 11, 1936 | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

...lacks both knowledge and judgment. Indeed, I really cannot comment until I see the official text because such a speech by a responsible statesman is incredible!" Where Was China? In all last week's fighting and alarms where was China? What was the role of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, who is today Premier of the Nanking Government? For some years Generalissimo Chiang has avoided becoming involved with Japan or other foreign foes of China by remaining up-country with his large armies fighting Chinese Communists. His victories have been many. His executioners' swords have made thousands of Red heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN ASIA: Soviets v. Empires | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...tiptoe (see p. 18). In Asia practical control of North China was obtained by Japan in 1935 so adroitly and inconspicuously that it was a major Japanese triumph to have avoided producing a Man of the Year. China's perpetually harassed Man of the Year, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, entered his most excruciating morass of dilemmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: Man of the Year: Haile Selassie | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

China's hard-pressed Premier, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, had more of his usual bad news last week. Japanese money and arms had induced Mongolian Prince Teh to proclaim an "independent" state in Inner Mongolia bordering the Chinese Great Wall. To the north Mongolian soldiers and Japanese planes forced the surrender of the Mongol city of Changpeh in Chahar Province, laid the groundwork for another independent State bordering the "Autonomous Government of North China" hatched last November by the Japanese Army (TIME. Dec. 2). As Japan chipped away at Generalissimo Chiang's China (see map) it became a matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Crumbling Last Line | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

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