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Happiest dream of a Chinese is of China fighting Japan and winning. Last month hotheaded southern warlords of Kwangtung and Kwangsi Provinces notified Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek that he must either declare war at once on Japan or be prepared to stop their armies from marching northward, in the general...
Chiang's master stroke had been to keep bargaining with the Southerners until after his Nationalist Central Executive Committee had met in Nanking. There last fortnight, with an appearance of democratic, parliamentary unanimity, they were forced by Chiang to outlaw the South's front man, General Chen Chi...
Meanwhile 27 U. S. bombing planes, newly purchased by Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, were kept thundering over Nanking, his capital, to impress last week's arriving delegates to the so-called Chinese Parliament or Central Executive Committee. This gathering's name, copied from that of the ruling body...
As it convened, the Chinese Parliament faced challenging demands from South-west China that the Nanking Government gather all its strength and fight Japan as best it can. These demands have been keynoted by the provincial leaders of Kwangsi and Kwangtung, who have even marched their armies into warily rebellious...
Best part of Two Worlds deals with China. Lester Cohen had wanted to find out something definite about the Chinese Soviets in the interior, had even contemplated trying to visit them. But after he had lived in Shanghai, Nanking, Soochow, Peiping, met an anti-Japanese volunteer who used a cigaret...