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...predicted five months ago when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek returned from his kidnapping at the hands of General Yang Fu-cheng and Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, (TIME, Jan. 4), Kidnapper Yang last week announced that he was leaving the country. But not in disgrace, not as a prisoner. Kidnapper Yang let it be known that he had accepted a commission from Kidnappee Chiang to "investigate military and economic conditions in the United States and Europe." For pocket money and traveling expenses it was an nounced that the Chinese Treasury had given...
...hired last week to fly her personal plane U. S. Citizen Julius Barr, onetime air chauffeur to Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang who recently kidnapped her husband (TIME, Dec. 21 et seq.). Modern Mme Chiang is expected to visit the U. S. soon, explain to Christian women's clubs about her Methodist husband's sore troubles as Dictator...
...luscious and loud onetime social worker is Mme Chang Hsueh-liang, wife of the "Young Marshal" who recently kidnapped China's Dictator (TIME, Dec. 21). It finally seemed safe for her to return from abroad last week and back she came. Kidnapper Chang, having been sentenced to ten years, then pardoned but deprived of his civil rights for five years, had these rights restored to him last week by order of Kidnappee Chiang Kai-shek and Nanking wiseacres thought Chang would soon be War Minister...
...turn out top-notch planes, of which the finest was the famed 247-D-first twin-motored, low-wing, high-speed transport. Introduced in 1933, this ship outmoded the lumbering Fords and Fokkers, became standard with six U. S. lines, Deutsche Lufthansa and China's Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang...
...these Chinese Communists, mostly farmers, to take some welcome respite and more or less settle down in three large blotches with a total area today of perhaps 80,000 sq. mi. Last week this Red State was spectacularly absorbing many soldiers once commanded by Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, recently kidnapper of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Dec. 21 et seq.) and war lord of Manchuria until the Japanese drove him out (TIME, Sept. 28, 1931). Worse still, last week the deserters of the Young Marshal's standard were killing their officers, as many of these were...