Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus last week spoke shrill, wasp-waisted little President Chiang Kai-shek to troops at his capital, Nanking. Shrilly he continued:
"Behind Nanking's rococo façade, which some foreigners have helped to erect, there is working a political system, or rather a family corporation whose idea of running the country is the management and exploitation of China as the property of Chiang Kai-shek and his so-called...
The Canton Government of 1926 launched a war to conquer all China, conquered it (TIME, June 11, 1928) and is now the Chinese Government at Nanking known to President Hoover. Mr. Chen is now back in Canton exactly where he started in 1926. He even holds the same office, Foreign...
All week munitions were landed at Canton. An Exchange Telegraph despatch said that the new Government "has enough on hand to fight for six months." Contracts have been secured, according to this despatch, by enterprising German and Japanese firms to supply the Canton Government with $1,000,000 worth of...
The presence of Marshal Chang Hsuehliang in Nanking last week was the most important fact in China. Had the young marshal refused to come, had he made excuses tarrying up North in Peiping or Manchuria, the game of President Chiang would have been definitely up. The President's strength...