Word: plete
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. Chiang Kai-shek's withdrawal reduced to insignificance the offshoot Nationalist regime at Nanking which Chiang had headed* placing the parent nationalist regime at Hankow once more in com plete mastery of nationalist affairs. Nominally the "Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang intervened in the interest of Hankow; but his reputation for treachery is such that Chinese thought that he would soon attempt to seize the whole Nationalist territory himself...
...Porter agreed, under pressure, to extend the time limit for the com- plete suppression of opium production from 10 to 15 years, but the period was virtually to begin forthwith. Britain would and could not agree. She wanted the period to begin from a time when China had effectively suppressed the excess growth of the opium poppy and so removed the danger of smuggling. In other words, progressive restriction on the cultivation of the poppy was not practical international politics until the smuggling danger had been removed...