Word: kaishek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such times a troupe of performing politicians is needed. War Lord Yen had imported 15 from Nanking, capital of "Nationalist" President Chiang Kaishek. Headed by Wang Ching-wei, leader of the Left faction at Nanking, the 15 troupers announced (after the band had ceased to squeal and groan) that President Yen is today the true "Nationalist," that "Nationalist" President Chiang is no longer a "Nationalist...
Marshal Chiang Kaishek, foe of Yen and Feng and "President of China" in name if not in fact, was reported leading his Nanking armies on no less than three fronts at once, was rumored to have contracted gangrene from a wound in the arm, was positively declared in Shanghai by some of his closest political associates to be dead - not that anyone exactly believed...
Quick on the rebound is the Nationalist Government of President Chiang Kaishek. Less than a month ago the Nationalists were fighting desperately for their very existence; no one knew who would rule China from one day to the next. Last week, their authority temporarily reestablished, the Nationalists dusted their jackets, straightened their horn-rimmed spectacles, strutted again. Cocky Cheng Ting ("C. T.") Wang, Nationalist Foreign Minister, blandly disregarding riot and rebellion, announced that with the first of the year he would abolish the right of extraterritoriality in China, i.e. the right of foreign residents in China to be tried...