Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Optimistic observers of the Paris conference refused to be depressed. It was pointed out that bristle-headed Dr. Vögler was an avowed Nationalist, that he had from the first refused to agree to any payments beyond 37 years, that he was directly responsible to the Ruhr industrialists, who were determined to make no concessions to the Creditor Powers. Optimists felt that Dr. Ludwig Kastl, the German delegate who succeeds Dr. Vögler, would be easier to deal with...
With the city of Canton temporarily safe from capture by the rebel armies of Kwangsi (TIME, May 27), the Nationalist Government turned last week to face the most serious test of its three years of life...
...more than a year a most doubtful ally of the Nationalist Government has been the so-called "Christian General," Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, holder of Peiping, Lord of the Chinese central government, owner of an enormous well-equipped private army...
...Christian General" that the time had come to step out for himself. He set soldiers to work tearing Up bridges and railroads, concentrated his private army of 150,000 in Honan province, made a statement charging President Chiang with misappropriating government funds, expressed his determination to fight the Nationalist Government...
...days later Marshal Feng was dismayed to learn that Canton had not been captured. President Chiang was sending two armies, each as large as the entire U. S. regular army, moving north and northwest against him. The Kuomintang (Nationalist Party) had met and expelled Marshal Feng for life...