Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good peacetime President, nor were they disappointed. Precisely similar was the reasoning of Chinese, last week, when they chose the first President of the new Chinese Nationalist Government (TIME, May 2, 1927). Naturally and inevitably their choice fell upon the Nationalist Revolution's doughty "Man of Victory," famed Marshal Chiang Kai-shek...
...Chinese people. Most of them have never seen a ballot, and millions have never heard of one. The 17 years of political ferment through which China has passed since the collapse of the Manchu Empire in 1911, have left the nation with nothing so advanced as an electorate. Therefore Marshal Chiang Kai-shek was elected last week by the Central Executive Council of the Nationalist Party, to serve as "President of the Government." Not for a long, weary while will it be possible to democratically elect a "President of China." For the present, the Nationalists ?who have just wrested...
Correspondents who sought out the new President found the same slender, abstemious, almost frail Chiang Kai-shek of old. As Marshal and Generalissimo of all the Nationalist Armies his uniform was always that of a private, completely unadorned. Last week as President of the Government he received callers in austerest garb, after doffing his plain, dark, silken robe of office. Coldly, firmly...
...other War Minister of Poland has ever been so greeted. It merely happens that Marshal Pilsudski is the real ruler and Dictator of Poland, though he prefers to call himself merely "War Minister" and to make both President and Prime Minister his puppets...
Grinning amiably, and handsomely sunburned, the Marshal roared to correspondents : "I've been lying on a balcony in Rumania, reading books about Napoleon...