Word: lin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asked himself what he and other high officers could do for China while simple soldiers were buttoning themselves up. Suddenly General Ho was struck by the great fact that China unquestionably has too many generals. In a passion of self-abnegation Full General Ho dispatched a petition to President Lin Sen at Nanking asking to be demoted to the rank of a mere Major General. "The rules governing promotion," darkly added Full General Ho, "should in future be observed...
...from happy to receive this petition was President Lin, who does what he is told by Generalissimo Chiang and tries fervently to keep out of military squabbles. Not knowing where General Ho's request for demotion might lead, President Lin replied with a noncommittal letter of effusive commendation which left Ho still a full general. Last week his brilliant subordinate, Lieut.-General Tsow Tsohua, one of China's crack artillery commanders, raised the whole issue again by petitioning to be demoted to the rank of colonel...
...continued its "unreasonable attitude," Generalissimo Chiang summoned a secret conference of government leaders last week at his summer headquarters at Ruling in the Lushan Mountains. Up for discussion was, among other things, a new Constitution which would take the President of China out of the figurehead class (a Mr. Lin Sen is now President) and give him full powers. The implication was that Generalissimo Chiang will make himself President and move into the brand new $100,000 Chinese "White House" (yellow walls, blue tile roof) at Nanking which puppet President Lin has never ventured to occupy...
ARTHUR T. LAPRADE, CHAS. A. CARSON JR., LIN H. ORME, F. K. MCBRIDE...
...cannot praise too highly Mussolini and Hitler. What men! I am only a small man now. The Chinese people will not like this cor onation. They have never liked the idea of a crowned ruler since the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty. Had my own father. Marshal Chang Tso-lin, been crowned I should have wanted to kill...