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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Released by the Nationalist Information Bureau in Manhattan, last week, was the striking information that seven out of the ten members of the new Nationalist Cabinet are Christians. These include the 75th descendant of Confucius in direct line, H. H. Kung, Minister of Colonies; and the great Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, one of China's so-called "Big Three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Christian Majority | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...behind, President Chiang Kai-shek sped to the scene. As the mob of students sullenly parted to let him through, and then closed in behind, Marshal Chiang faced a nasty situation. The so-called "students" are really a conglomeration of all the younger and more violent partisans of the Nationalist regime. They would have to be wooed and harangued, not bluntly ordered to disperse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Treaty Riot | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

Presently the British Minister, Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson, arrived at Nanking and signed with Dr. Wang a treaty granting de jure recognition of the Nationalist regime by His Majesty's Government, and according to Great Britain, "most favored nation" status under the new Chinese Tariff Law, effective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Treaty Riot | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

Next day, amid prodigious Nanking rejoicings, Sir Miles extended official British recognition to the new Nationalist state and presented his credentials as the first British Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Nanking while Chinese airplanes zoomed overhead and with Chinese bands piping and squeaking God Save the King. A 21-gun salute boomed from the British war boat Suffolk anchored off Nanking on the mighty wimpling Yantze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Treaty Riot | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

This salute historic was the first ever accorded by a great power to the new Nationalist President, Chiang Kaishek. Such a salute would have been fired long ago by a German war boat since Berlin is exceedingly friendly to Nanking, except for the fact that the disarmed German Republic has never had in Chinese waters a war boat potent enough to thunder a proper salute. A recent trifling difference between U. S. Minister to China John Van Antwerp MacMurray, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang resulted in cancellation of fully perfected plans that a U. S. war boat should fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Treaty Riot | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

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