Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These statements, firm, clear, dispassionate, were little more than a notation of the fact that China has been fired by the Nationalist program, "China for the Chinese," to a pitch seriously menacing the long supremacy in Chinese affairs of the Great Powers...
...children, unconcerned, counted the bullets pinging into Socony Hall. Consul Davis parleyed with the Chinese attackers, buying them off from hour to hour, until those at Socony Hall had no more money. Then said a Chinese: "We don't want money, anyway, wei want to kill." Some Chinese Nationalist friends of Consul Davis next arrived, carrying a Nationalist flag. This appeared to displease the attacking Chinese who seized the flag, tore it to shreds, and moved to attack Socony Hall. "My husband," said Mrs. Davis later, "shouted: 'Men, get your guns! Guard the women! Send up a rocket...
...Armed men, a hundred strong, rode in these automobiles-modern equivalents of a bodyguard of cavalry. A slim but unmistakably commanding Southern Chinese, clad in a uniform entirely unadorned, rode in the third motor car. This was the great Conqueror of half China (TIME, Sept. 20 et seq.), the Nationalist War Lord Chiang Kaishek...
...moments later, the cavalcade returned from the French quarter; and the Conqueror subsequently let it be known that his chauffeur had mistaken the way. Soon Chiang Kaishek, his entourage, and his formidable bodyguard were installed at a large residence. A flagstaff was erected and the red, white and blue Nationalist flag unfurled. On a blue field in the upper staff corner of a red flag rises a white...
...question was, last week, "Will the Nationalists maintain in the present hour of victory that unity which has made their victory possible?" Already there are rumors of political dissention in the Nationalist ranks; but last week Chiang Kaishek, surrounded by his potent, mobile, efficiently modern bodyguard, seemed well equipped to master the half of China he has conquered...