Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once more a Harvard graduate appears in a remote corner of the world advancing radical ideas and bringing order out of choas. This time it is T. V. Soong '15 who has taken the position of Finance Minister of the Nationalist party in China. In 1915 when Soong took his degree here one would hardly have thought that the same frail, slight foreigner in ten years would be organizing the finance of a country with a population totaling over 300 millions...
When, however, the ominous rumblings of civil war increased in 1915 and Chinese patriots started to flock to the nationalist standard in the south, Soong found himself moving towards Canton with the rest of the revolutionists...
...time it was in those two and a half years that he developed the knowledge and the ability which made his rapid rise later in China possible. He is one of the large group of students who, having obtained a foreign education, now form the back-bone of the Nationalist movement...
Foreign Affairs-Dr. C. C. Wu (son of onetime [1896] Chinese Minister to Washington, Wu Ting-fang, 1896-). Finance-Dr. Ku Yin-fang (onetime associate of the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Father of the Chinese Republic"). Chiang, his "Cabinet" set up, hurried Northward with two armies, resuming the original Nationalist object of advancing to conquer Peking...
Hankow. The parent Southern Nationalist Government at Hankow seemed to be disintegrating rapidly last week. Only a fortnight ago the U. S., Britain, Japan, Italy and France delivered a joint note to Eugene Chen, Foreign Minister of the Hankow administration. But last week Mr. Chen was said to have fled to a hospital maintained at Hankow by French nuns...