Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The crashing wave of affairs that brought an end to the Nationalist Government of President Chiang Kai-shek (see col. 2) last week raised an echoing rumble from Shanghai. In Shanghai lives a demigod's relict, the widow of the late great Dr. Sun Yatsen, who lies in a...
"More recently Nanking and Canton stood at opposition to each other each boasting of its own merits. . . . Both are antipeople and antirevolutionary. . . .
Seemingly all effective Chinese resistance to Japan in Manchuria had been crushed last week. Only at Chinchow, far to the south of Manchuria and near China proper, was there any large group of Chinese soldiers who might do battle. To hearten them Chinese President Chiang Kaishek at Nanking-1,000...
In Nanking an ambitious man got what he wanted. He was Dr. Vikyuin Wellington Koo. onetime Premier, onetime Minister to Great Britain and to the U. S. What he wanted: the coveted job of Foreign Minister. While Dr. Koo and others were eyeing the post longingly two months ago a...
Popular fears were thus calmed but President Chiang grimly proceeded with steps to move his General Staff (and possibly later his Civil Government) inland. Division after division of Chinese soldiers marched from Nanking northward into eastern Honan and therefore toward Manchuria, toward Japan. Was China going to fight Japan, going...