Word: nationalists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great Marshal Chiang Kai-shek journeyed from Shanghai to Nanking, last week, and there fulfilled his announced intention of assuming supreme civil and military command of the "Nationalist Government" (TIME, Jan. 2). Soon he reorganized the Cabinet, appointing as Minister of Finance his wife's brother, T. V. Soong, and as Minister of Reconstruction his step-nephew by marriage, Sun Fo (son of the late, "sainted" Dr. Sun Yat-sen). Excitement brewed and seethed as Marshal Chiang ordered into immediate session some scores of delegates who have remained impatiently assembled in Nanking eager to become the Nationalist Party Congress...
...declared that he resigned because of "a sense of regret at my inability to accomplish anything." The opinion was general that if so great a statesman cannot work with his recent colleagues there will have to be a general reshuffle of the Cabinet when the Nationalist Party Congress shortly convenes in Nanking...
From the cabinet of the Nanking "Nationalist Government" there resigned, last week, two leading statesmen: 1)-Foreign Minister Dr. C. C. Wu, who represented South China at the Paris Peace Conference; and 2) Finance Minister Sun Fo, son of the late "sainted" Dr. Sun Yat-sen who founded the Nationalist movement...
While Dr. Sun lived, Chiang Kai-shek was but an humble disciple. After his death, the disciple eventually became generalissimo of all the Nationalist Armies and led them up from Canton to conquer the southern half of China (TIME...
...Soviet Russia, but, after Conqueror Chiang Kai-shek had suffered defeat, political, not military, (TIME, Aug. 22, 1927), he turned against Moscow. Such an about face was not made by Madame Sun Yatsen. She remains Russophile, she is now in Moscow, and she was sorely vexed when the "Nationalist Government" recently broke off its relations with Soviet Russia (TIME, Dec. 26, 1927). Therefore, last week, Madame Sun threw upon the side of Soviet Russia the enormous weight of her name and prestige* in China, by cabling as follows from Moscow...