Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Nanking, Canton. Shanghai, passionately indignant Chinese likened Manchuria to Panama. When President Theodore Roosevelt wanted a strip of Colombian territory which spanned the Isthmus of Panama, they recalled, a secessionist movement conveniently arose. Panama broke away from Colombia. Promptly recognized as a new and sovereign state by President Roosevelt...
Chinese Unite? As they always do when menaced by Japan, China's weak and wrangling factional governments tried last week to unite. Only last spring the Canton Government was reviling "Nanking's rococo façade" while the Nanking Government denounced Canton Foreign Minister Eugene Chen as a Bolshevik Red. Both...
Chinatown's Lee. Unlucky Dr. C. T. Wang who was beaten, stabbed and mauled by patriotic students (TIME, Oct. 5). because as Nanking's Foreign Minister "his policy toward Japan was not positive enough," recovered partly from his wounds last week. Thrice stabbed, he worried most about his badly beaten...
In 1906, aged 22, he went to teach in China under Y. M. C. A. auspices, became attached to the. late great Dr. Sun and in 1927 turned up in Washington where he persuaded President Calvin Coolidge to recognize Nanking as the Government of all China.
Safety Valves. To keep superpatriotic students out of mischief, Nanking President Chiang Kai-shek organized "student battalions" last week, ostensibly for war with Japan. But numerous students were too canny to join, doubted the President's will to war. Three thousand students, most of them with little or no money...