Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Nanking Government's Finance Minister, owl-eyed, stubble-haired T. V. (Tse-vungj) Soong, left war-torn China last April to see what the world thought of China v. Japan. While he was talking in clipped Harvard English in the Foreign Offices of the U. S., Britain, Germany...
Homing Minister Soong was a man to be feared last week. In the U. S. he had negotiated a $50,000,000 loan from Reconstruction Finance Corp. on condition that he control its spending on U. S. cotton and wheat. That was enough to empower him to line up Nanking...
While Minister Soong was away, famed "Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang had been active too. Big and bluff, he is a typical North Chinese but he has the nimble brains of such Southerners as Chiang Kaishek. When last month he suddenly ended his bluff as Commander-in-Chief of...
Between the Nanking Government of North & Central China and its loosely subservient ally, the Canton Government in South China, is an area of great lakes, marshes and mountains pullulating with bandit Communist armies. Harassed from all sides last week, the tattered, hungry Communists saw to the east the fat fields...
"We are battling for China's independence against Japanese invaders!" read armbands recently stitched on the sleeves of soldiers commanded by China's Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang who promptly received cash contributions from numerous Chinese patriots (TIME, July 31) Last week, without having fought so much...