Word: shek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mayor Yui. The potent figure of Chiang Kai-shek had last week not yet appeared directly on the Shanghai front Chinese commander at Shanghai was a little known war lord named Chang Chi-chung. More important politically was the mayor of greater (Chinese) Shanghai, Yu Hung-chun who prefers to Americanize his name to Mr. O. K. Yui. Nothing so simple as a direct municipal election is possible in the China of Chiang Kaishek. Shanghai's mayoralty with the administration of a budget of $3,000,000-one of the most important jobs in the East-is a direct...
Uninjured by the bombings but a shocked eye-witness was Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Quickly she telegraphed a protest to Mme Chiang Kai-shek with whom she had dined earlier in the week...
...these generals put all their troops into the campaign Chiang Kai-shek can count on nearly a million men. So far Japan apparently expects to oppose all this with just one general. Lieut. General Kiyoshi Kazuki, commandant at Tientsin (see cut), who was not only fighting Japan's war last week but busying himself with the details of setting up another Japanese puppet state in the Peiping North China area. During all this Premier Fumimaro Konoye took to his bed in Tokyo, ostensibly overcome by the heat...
This blunt admission, distressingly crude, had its elegant Japanese counterpart in a speech to the Diet last week by Premier Prince Konoye. "I think there are many persons in the Chinese Government who understand Japan, including General Chiang Kai-shek," purred the Premier. "I think it should be the basic keynote of Japan's China policy to make the Chinese race and the Chinese Government return to their original nature as an Oriental people." After explaining that Communism is un-Oriental. while tactfully omitting to mention that the Chinese Communists have now tentatively joined forces with the Chinese Government...
...wife, eldest of the three famed Soong girls who with their brother have long been the real power behind the Nanking Government. By marrying Ailing ("Pleasant") Soong, smart Dr. Kung became brother-in-law at one crack of China's late, sainted Dr. Sun Yatsen, President Chiang Kai-shek and Finance Minster T. V. Soong. It was logical in 1933 when T. V. Soong quarreled with Chiang that Dr. Kung should succeed to his job. Regarded then as second-rate compared to brilliant "T. V.", Dr. Kung has since done a whacking good job, currently sits high at China...