Word: shek
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President, nor were they disappointed. Precisely similar was the reasoning of Chinese, last week, when they chose the first President of the new Chinese Nationalist Government (TIME, May 2, 1927). Naturally and inevitably their choice fell upon the Nationalist Revolution's doughty "Man of Victory," famed Marshal Chiang Kai-shek...
...them have never seen a ballot, and millions have never heard of one. The 17 years of political ferment through which China has passed since the collapse of the Manchu Empire in 1911, have left the nation with nothing so advanced as an electorate. Therefore Marshal Chiang Kai-shek was elected last week by the Central Executive Council of the Nationalist Party, to serve as "President of the Government." Not for a long, weary while will it be possible to democratically elect a "President of China." For the present, the Nationalists ?who have just wrested China from the grip...
Finally the high, nasal voice of Chiang Kai-shek in triumphant recital of the last will of Dr. Sun Yatsen, ending; "Fight on, my fellow workers! Bring about a People's Convention for the solution of our national problems and to abolish the unequal treaties with foreign nations...
Happily the Strongest man seemed, last week, on the point of wiping from his scutcheon the stain of treachery. Despatches reported him in complete harmony with the new regime, said that he and the onetime Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek would shortly go to Peking and there jointly celebrate the union of all China proper under the banner* of Nationalism...
...large, well armed and variously belligerent forces in the Peking-Tientsin area, alarm was general lest the most serious disorders if not battles should ensue. In the circumstances, it was permissible to ask hourly, last week, "Peking, Peking, who's got Peking?" Amid extreme crisis, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek issued at Nanking an astounding communique: "The military phase of the Nationalist movement has been completed, rendering unnecessary further warfare. The office of Generalissimo is automatically terminated. The military council of the Nationalist government hereafter will administer all military affairs." In conclusion Chiang said that he will now concern himself...