Word: lin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intervention at Washington, London, Paris. But it was probably Tokyo which caused Manchuria's Chang to sue for a separate peace. Japan has huge commercial interests in Manchuria. In the past she has subsidized both Governor "Young Chang" Hsueh-Liang and his late, great father "Old Chang" Tso-Lin. She wants above everything to prevent the great powers from intervening in her bailiwick. Again appropriate last week was a famed cartoon, the Magnum Opus of Shanghai's North China Daily Herald. It shows a bespectacled bird which greatly resembles Prince Chichibu of Japan perching with a wink above the apple...
...deposited in the National City Bank so that the accruing compounded interest will assure the return of the original capital. Furthermore, the organization will insure the life of each beneficiary. Prospective loaners are re-assured that only 3% of student loans are defaulted, that money loaned to the Lin- coln Fund will be sent directly to the institution the student elects, that in helping to pay a student's fees, they are also helping many an impoverished institution. Sample requests for assistance approved by the Lincoln Fund: The Dean of a small Eastern college wants money to acquire...
Which Would Win? The occidental who knows most about which side might win a Chino-Russian war is hard-boiled "Major General" Frank Sutton. He used to be chief military advisor to rapacious, barbaric old Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin, father of the present Governor-Dictator of Manchuria, Chang Hsueh-Liang. Since Old Chang waged most of his wars from Mukden-and finally died there when his armored train was dynamited-the doughty General Sutton knows every inch of Manchuria's prospective battlefields and also the calibre and equipment of Chinese and Russian troops. Sought out in London...
Asked about Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang-son of his old employer, Marshal Chang Tso-lin-General Sutton meaningly said: "His qualities as a strategist remain to be seen. If they are anything like his father's Russia will not find victory so easy to attain...
Simultaneous with the seizure of the Railway, last week, the Chinese Government announced dead the treaty negotiated by Marshal Chang Tso-lin in 1924 covering its joint operation by Russia and China. President Lu Yung-huang, unmuzzled at last, explained: "Since 1924, violations of the Treaty have been numerous. . . . Soviet Communist propaganda through . , . the railway is proved by documentary evidence seized in the recent raid of the Soviet Consulate at Harbin. We are constrained to take the present drastic measures to safeguard China's interests." Distinctly a threat was his conclusion: "If Russia resorts to retaliatory measures, China is prepared...