Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reporters may have been surprised to hear Miss Williams speak not bitterly but with rare discernment about the Chinese situation. She kept clear, as many have not, the distinction between the Conservative and Communist wings (now split apart) of the Chinese Nationalist party. It was a Communist Nationalist soldier fighting under the Conservative Nationalist General Chiang Kai-shek (before the split) who shot Dr. Williams. Miss Williams showed that she does not hold the Conservative general blamable, but rather looks to the Conservative Nationalist regime which he, Chiang Kaishek, has set up at Nanking, as the salvation of China...
Said Miss Williams: "Perhaps my father's death may awaken the Nationalist party to the dangers of Communism. . . . I am confident that the Conservative group will work out the salvation of that country in a few years...
...been in the foreign service for 24 years, in Egypt, Mexico City, St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Berlin, Vienna, Berne, Copenhagen. He has been Minister to Denmark and to Switzerland, was Secretary of the American Peace Commission at Versailles, negotiated the Lausanne Treaty (not ratified by the Senate) with the Turkish Nationalist Government. It was also announced that Robert E. Olds, Assistant Secretary of State, would succeed Mr. Grew as Under Secretary of State. Mr. Olds was once law partner of Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg...
Chen Chien Routed. The only notable military action of the week occurred when Chiang Kaishek, onetime Generalissimo of all the Southern Nationalist armies, now War Lord of Shanghai and Nanking (TIME, March 28 et seq.) surrounded and captured 5,000 men commanded by his onetime subordinate, General Chen Chien. Despatches indicated that General Chen will be offered up to the Powers by General Chiang as a "Red" who, on his own responsibility, ordered and carried out the so-called "atrocities" against Occidentals at Nanking (TIME, April...
With his sisters' marriage to Sun Yatsen, Nationalist leader, he immediately cast in his lot with the southerners., Rising immediately to the head of the Finance Department he completely revolutionized the old method of tax collecting. The old system with all its red tape and abuses was completely scraped and a new organization started in which each collector was responsible directly to the Finance Minister for the taxes he raised. An immediate increase in revenue was necessary in order to pay for the battles, sieges and salaries which were necessary for the new southern forces which were combating armless backed...