Word: kwan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scholars before her soldiers audibly protested. Students staged sympathy walkouts in other cities. Kuomintang partisans blamed the incident on "malicious elements." But Generalissimo Chiang, who was opposing Communist extremists in the north, now turned on Kuomintang extremists in Kunming. He dismissed the city's garrison commander, General Kwan Lin-cheng. He sent his Vice Minister of Education, Chu Ching-nung, to make an inquiry and offer amends. For hurling the fatal grenades, two men were executed on the spot of the crime...