Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nanking ("Southern Capital"), where the Nationalist Government which purports to rule all China is established (TIME, Oct. 29, 1928), slender, shrill President Chiang Kai-shek insisted that Peking's real name is the one he gave it two years ago, "Peiping," which means "Northern Peace...
...tribute he must pay the Mahara-jadhiraya of Nepal according to a still-valid "perpetual unity" signed in 1856. Whatever the trouble, the Grand Dalai Lama despatched couriers weeks ago who reached the terminus of a Chinese telegraph last week and sent frantic appeals for troops to the Chinese Nationalist Government in Nanking, promising to pay them well if they will travel and march about 2,500 miles to the defense of Lhasa...
...Saint Gandhi grew wroth at British authorities who have been methodically seizing salt evaporated by his followers. Said he: "It is sheer vulgarity to snatch salt from our Satyagrahis [Nationalist volunteers]. It is my earnest desire that the Satyagrahis should not part with their salt in spite of the most severe injury to their hands." His chief worry was that he had not been arrested, though his second son was jailed last week as his first was fortnight ago for violating the salt laws, making "seditious utterances...
Having resonantly declared his independence of the Nationalist Government fortnight ago (TIME, April 14). General Yen Hsi-shan, "Model Governor" of Shansi, moved rapidly last week, seized the entire customs receipts of the city of Tientsin, with the exception of the 5% assigned the city by the Nanking Government for liquidation of foreign and domestic debts. There will be left some $4,000,000 a year...
Despite Governor Yen, the word "Nationalist" has come to sound in Chinese ears with something of the comfortable air of establishment which Vermonters give to "Republican." To make his cause still more respectable Governor Yen announced last week that he had assumed the rank of "Commander in Chief of the National Army, Navy and Air Force." Meantime, 15,000 of his National troops were invading Shantung province. There they soon defeated a number of Nationalist soldiers near the city of Tingyuan. Worried President Chiang Kai-shek of the Nationalist Government in Nanking prepared a major counteroffensive...