Word: kaishek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just one thing might buck up China today against Japan: a fat loan from the West to the Nanking Government of harassed, high-strung little Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Last week Japanese officials were nervous as cats lest such a loan result from the visit to China of the Paitish Treasury's biggest mobile gun, Sir Frederick Leith-Ross. bland Chief Economic Adviser to His Majesty's Exchequer, who is steaming this week toward the Far East...
...TIME's only rule in selection of cover subjects is newsworthiness. Thus, George V and Stanley Baldwin have in twelve years each appeared five times. Four-timers are Franklin D. Roosevelt, James Ramsay MacDonald. Typical of the 15 three-timers are Pope Pius XI, General Chiang Kaishek. Two-timers number 56, include Adolph Hitler. Mussolini, Carter Glass, Huey Long, Helen Wills...
...Governments," the Hai Chi and Hai Shen picked the Canton Government of Sun Yat-sen in the south. Later they sold out to the great northern war lord, Wu Pei-fu, next to Chang Hsueh-liang, the son of Wu's archenemy; still later to Nanking Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Two years ago they blandly deserted once more to their old friends, the Cantonese navy. Last fortnight, completely unable to decide whom to desert to, they steamed out of Canton past the fire of the Cantonese land forts into the neutral British harbor of Hongkong to wait for bids...
Amid all this Chinese woe there was one Great Power whose leader last week made a gesture friendly to Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Benito Mussolini sent to him as a gift a monster four- motored Italian bombing plane worth...
...bribery, advertising what he would pay to Chinese enemy commanders who deserted to his side. Last week, however, though General Ho apparently yielded to all Japan's demands in the name of his Government, there was no confirmation from Nanking or wily, wasp-waisted little Chinese Dictator Chiang Kaishek. The entire Chinese Government kept...