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...Kuomintang (National People's Party). There was plenty of soldiering to be done. Chiang became Sun's trusted lieutenant. He also found time to marry the girl his mother had picked out for him, and to have a son whom he named Chiang Ching-kuo...
Another measure of failure was hoarding and civil corruption. Chiang had called in son Ching-kuo (TIME, Sept. 20) to take charge of harsh drives against black markets in Shanghai. But the drive bogged down, Chinese said, when Chiang's police discovered hoarded goods in the godowns of David Kung, son of Banker H. H. Kung and nephew of Madame Chiang. The Shanghai press screamed for action, but a few days later David Kung with Madame Chiang visited the Gimo. The case was still "under investigation...
...streak pf humility remains. He showed it recently when he and Madame Chiang, with sons Ching-kuo and Wei-kuo, went over to the Christian church which the Gimo had presented to Nanking. No pastor was present. The Gimo himself preached a little sermon, taking his text from I. Chronicles: "As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord . . . But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war . . ." Jehovah had willed the assignment...
...What Shall We Do?" In the main battle, east of Suchow, government troops were forced to retreat. A mechanized group under General Chiu Ching-chuan (whose second in command is the Gimo's younger son, Chiang Wei-kuo) broke up a Communist attempt at encirclement, and helped other Nationalist divisions to fight their way back to the west and south. The well-watered North Kiangsu plain seethed like an ant heap with soldiers on the move, as Government Field Commander General Tu Yu-ming desperately shifted his men over rutted roads and torn-up rail tracks to establish...
...starting point "for improving social practices" the Gimo proclaimed a new movement-"industriousness and austerity for national reconstruction." "This movement," said the Gimo, echoing his racket-busting son, Ching-kuo (TIME, Sept. 20), "is a revolutionary social movement . . . Its mission is to check the tendency to extremes of wealth and poverty. Eventually life at the front will move downward to the soldiers' level and life in the rear to the common people's level...