Word: nationalists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name that the young Nationalist Government has recently conquered the Southern half of China (TIME, Dec. 13). To the Nationalists it is enough that little Mrs. Sun bears the name of their great dead leader. Today she resides at Wuchang, the new Nationalist Capital, drives about in a Dodge sedan, and is the living symbol of a great movement, Nationalism...
Although they all bear credentials from the North China régime at Peking, they reputedly decided that the real (strongest) "Government of China" is now the South Chinese or Nationalist régime...
...Last week Chang dismissed Sir Francis, threatened to replace him and all his foreign clerks with Chinese. If this is done, and "gotten away with," the customs revenues will most certainly be diverted from repayment of the foreign loans. Defy. The southern faction likewise retaliated upon Britain. Nationalist (southern) Foreign Minister Eugene Chen promptly broke off negotiations concerning the safety of Britons and their property in China (TIME, Jan. 24); and took the unprecedented and insulting course of ignoring the British Government and cabling over its head an appeal to the British Labor Party. Chen declared that "the British decline...
...emigrated to the land of his race, joining the Chinese Government service in Peking. Later he edited, and still later bought the Peking Gazette. At the close of 1917 he was in jail for writing anti-Japanese articles. Pardoned, he joined the Nationalist party of the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, at Canton, and was sent to the Paris Peace Conference with the Cantonese representative, Dr. C. C. Wu. When the new Nationalist Government began its conquest of South China (TIME, April 5) he became its "Foreign Minister...
...Happy New Year !" † (TIME, Feb. 7, et ante) The Civil War now going on is between North and South China, the northern factions holding Peking and Shanghai, and the new Nationalist army which has conquered the southern hah! of China pushing northward with Shanghai as its immediate objective...