Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There has been no official Nationalist attack upon the Foreign Settlements at Shanghai, and I do not think there is likely to be," said Professor S. K. Hornbeck in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday...
Professor Hornbeck continued by saying that the shooting and rioting in Shanghai which have occurred during the Nationalist capture of the native city where limited largely to the struggles of the Chinese armies. "The action which the foreign defense forces were required to take," he added, "was a police action such as was expected would be necessary where there was a disorderly mob. The situation which has developed vindicates the judgement of the foreign governments in sending armed forces to supplement the local police and volunteer in the expected task of preventing invasion of the Settlement by disintegrating units...
Asked if he thought the Nationalists would achieve success, Professor Horn- beck replied: "The Nationalist idea will eventually, I think, prevail all over China. Whether the present drive of the Nationalist government, merely a manifestation of the idea, will go on to Pekin or not, I am not prepared to say. With the advance on Shanghai they have gained control of about one half the country. Much severer fighting awaits them, however, if they begin to advance north of the Yangtse River into the Northern home territory. As for the present movement making China into a formidable world power...
...conclusion, Professor Hornbeck said, "The Nationalist movement is a bigger thing than the Nationalist party. I believe in the Nationalist movement, which is nation-wide, and extends beyond the field of politics. I believe in it because national self-consciousness, expressed in a general awakening, is making toward progress, toward national unity, toward independence. When this has become a world of truly independent states, law will have some chance of being conclusive in international relations...
There was danger. The "Red" Nationalist ship must run a doubtful gauntlet of anti-Nationalist Chinese and "White Russian" troops at Pukow before she could reach the upper Yangtze and the Nationalist Capital* Hankow. As Pukow was reached and the usual river patrol boat full of Chinese soldiers put off from the shore, Mme. Borodin and her three couriers steeled themselves to weasel out of many a question...