Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The fact of Mme Chiang's having fainted passed the official Nanking censor of dispatches in English. The chief censor of such dispatches is normally Mme Chiang herself. A most charming, accomplished Wellesley graduate, the Dictator's wife makes the official English translations of his speeches. He consults...
Presently the Nanking censor passed dispatches saying it was only the Japanese Domei News Agency which had invented "that appalling falsehood," the story of the broadcast from Sian having said the Dictator was dead. The kidnapper had indeed broadcast, said the Nanking Government, and the modern electrical transcription machinery of...
The "Official" Program of Kidnapper Chang was as follows (full text): "The Central [Nanking] Government [of China] has not been sincere in carrying out resistance against Japan. This has been shown by lengthy negotiations and the suppression of patriotic movements. So we must gather our forces, overthrow the Central Government...
In these circumstances, and especially since Dictator Chiang has dissolved in North China all local branches of the Nanking Government's own political party at the behest of Japan (TIME, Nov. 9), the Tokyo Cabinet last week would have been naive had they not listened with incredulity and anger...
Japanese incredulity was based on years of painful experience in which it nearly always turns out that Chinese outsmart Japanese until the sons of Nippon bring up overwhelming force. Premier Koki Hirota of Japan has just had his Cabinet publicly spanked by the Privy Council for having baited Stalin and...