Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ying-Chin, 54, runs the Army. He joined Sun Yat-sen and Chiang in Canton as the nationalist revolution broke out, led one of the three armies in Chiang's campaign against the northern warlords in 1926. He has been Chief of Staff ever since. Ferociously antiCommunist, with several pet hates in his own Army, he holds all the strings and politically fears nothing. He works closely with Dr. H. H. Kung, 62, who controls Civil Administration. Brother-in-law of the Gissimo, "Daddy" Kung has for many years controlled Government finances, and is a great believer in printed...
Left" out, as usual, in such a deal would be the nationalist aspirations of Free China, now close to economic collapse and pleading to be kept in the war by increased shipments of planes and the reopening of the Burma Road...
Fury & Flavor. Giraud's memorandum deals with France. His explanation has the fury of a puritan, the gift of shrewd observation, the introspection of a fervent nationalist, the conservatism of the French officers' class...
...served as Minister of Industry in Wu's Cabinet. Before the year was out he deserted Wu, made peace again with Chang Tso-lin and became governor of the Harbin district in Manchuria. He was there when Chiang Kai-shek marched into Nanking and consolidated his Nationalist Government. Most of the other war lords joined Chiang then. But not Chang. He sulked in Manchuria and tried a new bargain-this time with the Japanese. For that he earned the premiership of Manchukuo...
...have Smuts out of the country, even though he covers himself with international acclaim as he did in Britain recently, is what the two rival nationalist groups want above all else. Last week they both wished that he had never been born 72 years ago. What had been dreamed up as a political masterpiece by their respective party chieftains in the sleepy little town of Ventersdorp turned into ridicule and recrimination...