Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stalin by Voroshilov. In fact the most powerful man in Eastern Asia had been kidnapped last week by one of his potent and ambitious countrymen, a Chinese who not many years ago was under treatment in the Rockefeller Hospital at Peiping for addiction to opium. Kidnappee was the Premier of China, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, the military conqueror of his country not many years ago (TIME, April 25, 1927). Kidnapper was "The Young Marshal," Chang Hsueh-liang, son of the late great War Lord Chang Tso-lin who was assassinated by Japanese agents in their greatest mistake of this decade (TIME...
...seems except an assassination, and the kidnapping of the greatest man in Eastern Asia, unless it should be followed by his assassination, lacked any quality of finality. It was considered by nearly all Chinese, when the staggering news broke, as open to the highly probable suspicion that the Premier of China had had himself kidnapped from the noblest of motives...
...among the Rocky Mountains. The kidnapper, Young Marshal Chang, sent out over his military telegraph lines the only account of how his soldiers had detached the Generalissimo from his soldiers, an operation involving treachery by numerous persons, if not hundreds, for all soldiers in China ought to be the Premier's. If the Young Marshal had demanded say $50,000,000 ransom money, the whole thing would have been orthodox, for Mme Chiang is of China's great financial family, the House of Soong, and if they have not got $50,000,000 they know how to raise...
...Abandonment of the internal war waged by the Government against Communist bands for many years in China, and reorganization of the Kuomintang or Nationalist Party of the Premier to include Communists, as it did up to 1927. Up to that year the Kuomintang was subsidized openly direct from Moscow, and the generals who fought under the Generalissimo all had Soviet advisers and Communist propaganda staffs...
...over Japan's recognition of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia, figuring that last week the British certainly would not notice. In Tokyo an individual carrying dynamite, a razor-edged spear and a fistful of petitions confessed: "For three days I have been try ing to kill the Premier." Simultaneously in Japanese political circles the more or less gagged Parliament was reported so restive at the risks the Cabinet is running with its pro-German and pro-Italian pacts (TIME. Dec. 7) and its seizure of Tsingtao, that Japan's dominant militarists were about ready to thrash "those...