Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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China was boiling and popping with revolt last week. But China is mercifully vast. Centres of slaughter and pillage, rapine and rascality were strewn hundreds, thousands of miles apart. And firm in the saddle of his stumpy, strong-sinewed Chinese horse sat the great soldier-statesman who gives cohesion to the most populous and strife-wracked country in the world, His Excellency Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
...anti-Red campaign in the hands of his subordinate General Liu Tze and rush off to battle in a zone of still greater danger. Ceremoniously, though they all knew that the Generalissimo had made up his mind where he was going, the Council of Generals reviewed the centres of revolt...
Szechwan, about 1,000 miles from Nanking, was in revolt last week against Governor Liu Hsiang who got his job last year by heading a successful revolt against his uncle, then Governor Liu Wen-hui. Chinese sometimes remark, with but slight exaggeration, that "Szechwan has been in revolt for the last 20 years." Since Nephew Liu seemed to be holding his own against the insurgents Chiang's Council of Generals wisely left him to hold down if he can Uncle Liu's erstwhile seat...
Fukien was the last straw of revolt last week, the straw that broke Generalissimo Chiang's resolve to lead the anti-Communist drive in Kiangsi, the straw that caused him to summon his Council of Generals. Last month the Province of Fukien near Canton was announced to have "seceded" (TIME, Nov. 27). Last week Fukien's bold rebels dared to claim that they, not Nanking, represent the true Government of all China. Hurling defiance at Generalissimo Chiang they announced that their army will be led by General Tsai Ting-kai, famed commander of the 19th Route Army...
Many of the published versions of the Tugwell-Peek row indicated that the "Brain Trust" was on the point of revolt. The opposite has been true. The administrators and government officials who are out of sympathy with the "Brain Trust's" usurpation of power and authority were the rebels...