Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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British officials have become alarmed in recent months over the persistently impartial tone of press and public opinion in the U. S. as India's Nationalist troubles continue. Greatly they grieved for "gross inaccuracies, obvious misinterpretations" in U. S. news stories.* Dr. Thompson's little pamphlet, issued last week was one of Britain's first overt efforts to arouse sympathy for England's cause in India...
...several Nationalist disturbances of last week took place at Ahmedabad, the city from which St. Gandhi set out last March on his salt-making pilgrimage to the sea. At Ahmedabad Gandhites paraded through the streets with a barrowful of salt which they offered for sale. Police confiscated the cart, locked up 74 manifestants...
...fortunes of the Chinese Nationalist government, teetering dangerously for months, swung high again last week. The so-called bandit-communist armies that have menaced all government in the central provinces were comparatively quiescent. Torrential floods which have interrupted military operations against the northern leaders, subsided. Nationalist military despatches proudly announced 20 battles in one week. Best of all. Nationalist troops captured Tsinan, capital of Shantung province, in a pitched battle. Northern troops fled back toward the Yellow River leaving quantities of arms and munitions behind them. Optimistic correspondents in Shanghai announced that the capture of Tsinan and the resultant crippling...
Only important Nationalist defeat of the week was the disheartening return of General Wu Ti-chen, Nationalist government representative in Mukden, Manchuria, to Nanking. Sitting firmly in Mukden is Manchuria's little warlord Chang Hsueh-liang, who rules an area larger than France and Italy together and who inherited $10,000,000 in negotiable treasure from his bomb-smitten father, the great Chang Tso-lin. Smart Son Chang is an ally whom any Chinese government would give its eye teeth to possess but to the overtures of both Nationalists and Northerners, Smart Son Chang has ever been...
Hero of the week was a General Liu Chien-nien (see cut), a lesser war lord who controls the strategic Chefoo area, 100 miles from Tsingtao. For the weeks past he has maintained a delicate neutrality between Northerners and Nationalists. Fortnight ago the Nationalist Government sent Liu Chien-nien rifles and silver dollars. They were gratefully received. The Nationalist Government ordered him to attack the northern armies. Liu Chien-nien refused...