Word: kaishek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...follow the Premier's example of thrift. The Government even discouraged the buying of silk and drinking of tea "as these products should be conserved for export." In a fervent, patriotic convention at Hankow, Chinese political leaders of all factions again pledged unanimous loyalty to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. This game but losing commander prepared for the probable retreat of the Chinese Government from Hankow, the great central "Chicago of China" to which they withdrew after the fall of Nanking...
...Cabinet that Japan halt her offensive and limit the campaign to the occupation of the "conquered" territory. On the other hand, the Cabinet's military ' "extremists" insist that Japan push on to the final goal, i. e., control of all of China and the fall of Chiang Kaishek...
Most of the contributors to Monde Libre's first issue were front-page names: France's Herriot, Daladier, Paul-Boncour, Petain; England's Lord Cecil and Winston Churchill; China's Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek; U. S.'s rugged internationalist, Nicholas Murray Butler. Included among the articles on the economic and cultural advantages of peace and democracy were pertinent observations about the efficiency of the U. S. air force, Britain's navy, France's army. Monde Libre will appear quarterly in French and English...
SHANGHAI--Chinese and Japanese military dispatches today both reported that Japan's long-awaited "Big Push" has begun on Generalissimo Chiang KaiShek's fortified Lun-Hai railway line, defending his provisional capital in Hankow. The Japanese had captured a dozen towns and appeared this time to have thrown enough men and equipment into the series of battles raging at points on a great semicircular front around Suchow-Fu to make the Chinese positions around that key city almost untenable...
Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, warmly supported by Chinese and Russian Communists (see above), announced last week that he has just received the adherence of the Chinese Nazi Party. Explained a colleague of the Generalissimo as correspondents looked blank: "The activities of the Chinese Nazi Party have been concealed from the general public during the few years of its existence. Its Führer is Carson Chang who was educated in Japan and Germany." Führer Chang's brother, Chang Kai-ngau, is the Chinese Communications Minister...