Word: nationalists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nanking. Marshal Chiang Kaishek, recently Generalissimo of all the Southern (Nationalist) armies, set up a Cabinet, at Nanking, last week, to regularize his newly proclaimed government (TIME, April 25). Marshal Chiang, who represents the conservative Nationalist wing, assigned only two cabinet portfolios...
...Immediately the Chinese Nationalist Foreign Minister Eugene Chen replied to the five identical sets of demands with five different notes, promising each of the Powers a different degree of concession to their demands. Only to France, which has carefully preserved her neutrality in China, did Mr. Chen send a really unequivocal note of compliance. Toward Japan, Italy, the U. S. and Great Britain he indicated progressively smaller degrees of willingness to make reparation for the damage they alleged. Soon statesmen of the five Powers were explaining to their publics that Mr. Chen's trick is an old one which...
...While Foreign Minister Chen and the more radical Nationalist politicians were busy replying to notes at Hankow, the Nationalist Generalissimo, Chiang Kaishek, suddenly called a meeting of conservative Nationalists at Nanking. They voted to impeach the whole Nationalist Cabinet at Hankow on the ground that it is "Red," sparing only Foreign Minister Chen. Him they dubbed "misguided but loyal to Nationalism." C This keen blow by Chiang Kai-shek lopped off the Communist faction of Chinese Nationalism which has fattened at Hankow on Russian support. Overnight the Russian "adviser" to the Nationalist Government, Michael Borodin, went into hiding, "vanished." Then...
...These events had the following apparent effect: 1) Chiang Kai-shek became de facto Nationalist Dictator, and can face the Powers as a proven foe of Communism. 2) The replies of Foreign Minister Chen to the Powers are likely to become dead letters. C Because all these developments came so pat to the satisfaction of Great Britain, the French press began to hint that the British have bribed both Chiang Kai-shek and the great War Lord of North...
...Moscow studies a young student who is the son of the Chinese Nationalist Dictator Chiang Kaishek. When young Chiang heard last week how his father had taken steps to crush out Communism in China (see above) he wrote to a Moscow newspaper...