Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In trim khaki, eschewing gold braid and gaudy epaulets, the 1935 model Chinese field marshals, generals and satraps gathered in Nanking last week. Almost every Chinese of importance was there. Never before had China's Methodist Dictator, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, drawn around himself quite so many of China'...
Unfortunately the assassin's name turned out to be Sun, but he was said to be no relative of the Nanking Government's late, sainted Dr. Sun Yatsen, leader of the revolution which upset the Imperial Manchu Throne in 1911. Last week's Sun was promptly branded...
"The Deal." Pretending that they were unmoved by the winging of Wang, the Nanking Government & satraps kept on with the motions of getting ready for the Kuomintang Congress last week. In 1931, they recalled, a Nanking mob with unbridled patriotism actually sacked the Chinese Foreign Office (TIME, Oct. 5, 1931...
Up north, meanwhile, Japanese had been busy early last week tying their string to the demilitarized area near Peiping in which Japanese "ronin" provocateurs recently stirred up Chinese farmers to revolt and seize two towns (TIME, Nov. 4). Deriving his authority from Nanking, the Chinese satrap on the spot, General...
No Chinese could say whether Japan would succeed in setting up a separatist puppet regime starting with the demilitarized zone, but all were talking about such a possibility as Chinese arrived in Nanking last week for the annual Conference of the Government Party or Kuomintang opening officially Nov. 1.