Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chiang Looms. Marshal Chiang Kaishek, a bantam weight, trim-figured "Nationalist," who disdains pomp and affects a simple khaki uniform, loomed, last week, as likely to be first in the field of springtime civil war. His personal headquarters are at the great seaport Shanghai; but he has recently been chosen the civil and military head of the "Nationalist Government of China," a group of politicians and generals with headquarters at Nanking, nearby. Last week this group were preparing to hold, early in January, a plenary session of the Nationalist party congress?to concoct war plans. Since there was danger, however...
...Cable. Meanwhile Chiang Kai-shek was in difficulties at Shanghai, last week, with his sister-in-law, Madame Sun Yat-sen?although she was in Moscow. This dainty but great lady is the widow of Dr. Sun Yat-sen (1867-1925), who founded the original "Nationalist Government...
...Shanghai a group of Chinese who still call themselves the "Nationalist Government" went through the mummery, last week, of breaking off relations with Soviet Russia. Their famed Chiang Kaishek, onetime Nationalist generalissimo and conqueror of half China said: "I intend to exert my full strength to bring peace within the Nationalist territories in order to enable the re-oranization of the Nationalist government and provide for the active resumption of warfare against Marshal Chang Tso-lin [Dictator of North China], who must be eliminated before China will become peaceful...
Investigation appeared to show that Mr. Keller had rashly interrupted a meeting of Nationalist students, by exhorting them against violence from the balcony of their hall. Students flung him down to those below who knifed him several times and beat him senseless...
...students who had come from Bucharest and Jassy to hold a Nationalist congress at Oradia Mare, later claimed that the riots started when two Jewish butchers poured a caldron of boiling water on the heads of student marchers. This tale, perhaps true, was the only excuse offered last week, for the following student reprisals...