Word: shansi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best, most honorable of Chinese War Lords is great Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, famed "Model Governor" of rich and peaceful Shansi Province, almost the only part of China not ravaged by incessant civil war. Last week Yen came out at the small, painful end of a spacious adventure. He had captured Peking, proclaimed himself President (TIME, July 12), sought to make all China a prosperous Shansi?and miserably failed...
...troops which were not his closed in upon Peking last week "President" Yen proclaimed his resignation, withdrew to Shansi with a loyal army. After him scuttled his whilom "Prime Minister," the recently proud and pompous Wang Ching-wei. Strapping Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, ally of Yen, famed master of "the largest private army in the world," covered the ex-Presidential rear...
...sure. Peking tingled with tales of a secret pact between Yen and Chang. The young Manchurian, it was said, would hold Peking during the winter, nominally as a Nationalist, actually biding his time. In the spring, when Chinese wars begin, he would see. If by that time the Shansi marshal and his great ally Feng had recouped their strength, Manchuria's Chang might join them in a new attempt to capture all China...
Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, the "Peace Lord" who has kept order in Shansi province for 18 years, recently summoned a congress to Peking to elect him president of China (TIME...
...Model Governor" of Shansi province, which he has in fact erected into an independent island state (surrounded by China), Yen rightly claims the high distinction of having brought prosperity to 11,000,000 souls, the happiest in China today, despite a food shortage in the southwestern part. His hobbies are not women, whiskey, opium or even gold; but good roads, silkworm culture, soldiers for defense, police to preserve order, and the development of superior cattle, horses, plows, poultry, fertilizers?all things of direct benefit to his rustic people...