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Well aware of the very possible possibility of being assassinated by some Chinese patriot, Mr. Wang Ching-wei, presumably with an uncomfortable feeling in the pit of his stomach, set out last week from Shanghai to become Japan's puppet Chinese Premier in famed Nanking, where 27 months ago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Uncomfortable Puppet | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

Mr. Wang dared not even reveal to the Chinese people he expects to rule what are the terms of the pact he has made with Japan. "Now is not the time," bleated Wang in Shanghai, diving like a prairie dog into a Japanese steamer which chugged off up the swirling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Uncomfortable Puppet | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

NANKING--The central political conference of the orthodox Kuomintang--Nationalist--Party, meeting to prepare for the inauguration here of the new Japan-sponsored "National Governor of China" on March 30, today solved the problem of protecting Japan's "special interest" in North China by reviving the old "North China Political...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 3/22/1940 | See Source »

The Army hotly denied that its telegram to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek fortnight ago, notifying him that its objectives had been reached, was a plea for peace. It was nothing more, said Army spokesmen, than an old Chinese custom-after an overwhelming victory, offer the beaten enemy merciful terms. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Son of a Samurai | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

The gift had a tangle of strings attached. The river would be opened only as far as Nanking-a still dead city 193 miles upriver from Shanghai, only one-third of the stretch held by Japan. It would be opened "at the proper time"-not immediately. Navigation would be subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Bait Bitten | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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