Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Lieut. Patrice de MacMahon, grandson of Marshal Marie Edmé Patrice Maurice de MacMahon, second President of the Third (present) French Republic; of a wound inflicted when ambushed by tribesmen: in Mauritania, French West Africa...
...compromise whereby Adolf Hitler might become Chancellor of Germany so long as Kurt von Schleicher remained Minister of Defense with the Nazi storm troops enlisted in the army as unarmed labor battalions. This might have saved everybody's face but for President von Hindenburg. The old Field Marshal whose mind is a little slow at following the niceties of political intrigue put his rheumatic foot down at handing the Chancellorship to the man who had opposed him for the presidency, the man whom he secretly considers a ne'er-do-well opportunist...
...that the wily old Tiger was spared-the partially united China of the Nationalist government. Old Chang Tso-lin, living in the days of the great war lords, concentrated his intrigues on Manchuria, Northern China and Japan. When Japan invaded Manchuria and captured Mukden, Chang Hsueh-liang, the Young Marshal, was ruined. His arsenal and fortune were seized, his army was shattered, he lost face before all China. There still remained to him Peiping, and there until last week he remained. Now that Manchuria was lost he allied himself definitely with the Nationalist government of Chiang Kaishek. The Young Marshal...
...enemy Chiang Kai-shek to oppose Japan at Shanghai, resigned as Premier of the Nanking government, dragging the entire cabinet with him and sending an acid note to Chiang Kai-shek complaining bitterly at the piffling resistance to Japan put up by Chang Hsueh-liang, the Young Marshal. Sick, discouraged, disgraced, the Young Marshal offered his resignation too (TIME, Aug. 15). All the pleading of Chiang Kai-shek could not make him withdraw it last week...
...tried is Fascism, and last week Chiang Kai-shek was reported to be organizing a Chinese Fascismo with the 3,000 cadets of his Whampoa Military Academy as blackshirts and himself as an almond-eyed Mussolini. Even this would not work unless he could find someone to take young Marshal Chang's place at Peiping to hold the north for him. For days he bargained frantically with three possible candidates: Ho Ying-chin. Minister of War in the Wang Cabinet; Han Fu-chu, War Lord of Shantung; old Marshal Wu Pei-fu, the Scholar War Lord. The three candidates...