Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In their cables this week, seasoned China correspondents had an adjective for the way in which the kidnapping of Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was ended, and that adjective was "preposterous." In any Occidental sense it was preposterous that the most powerful man in Eastern Asia should have been violently...
Dictator Chiang has for so many years played such a tedious waiting game that the Young Marshal, when he publicly demanded as part of the "ransom" fortnight ago that the Nanking Government speed up and declare war on Japan, was voicing the aspiration of millions of Chinese The announced policy...
It was Chinese and it was masterly to put the whole program of war with Japan out officially from Nanking last week and see what would happen, especially what Japan would do. Japan had done so little up to this week, and Nanking had received so many telegrams of passionate...
Kill Chiang? It was singular that Nanking-censored dispatches should carry reports that the Dictator's wife, Mme Chiang, was out of sympathy with the manner in which her brother-in-law, Acting Premier Kung, was handling the situation last week. He sent thousands of troops hurrying to attempt...
This speech, possibly heard by the kidnapped Dictator himself by radio, was followed by the arrival in Nanking of his most trusted adjutant with peremptory orders to Dr. Kung to halt his soldiers. Since Dr. Kung had just told everybody they would not be halted, this placed the Nanking Government...