Word: shek
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...victorious Cantonese forces at Wuchang (TIME, Dec. 13) was on its best behavior last week as British Minister Miles Wedderburn Lampson arrived at Hankow just across the Yangtze. An anti-British strike which had impended at Hankow was called off. The Cantonese General Chiang Kai-shek and the Contonese Foreign Minister Dr. Eugene Chen received Minister Lampson in state, as well as Japanese and U.S. consular representatives...
Against this astute Mogul, wise in the thought of the Occident, the Cantonese War Lord Chiang Kai-shek steadily deployed his troops last week. He it was who created for Dr. Sun the Whampoa Military Academy in which the officers of the new Cantonese army received their military and political training-for they have been shown no less the use of the sword than how to propagandize their troops into a frenzy of Cantonese loyalty. Chiang Kaishek, a sort of super-Whampoa Cadet, is content to wear an austere cotton shirt and sips hot water with his frugal meals, while...
There rests the crux of Chiang's "Bolshevism." It is rather pan-Chinese patriotism. As he walks among his soldiers they cry: "China for the Chinese!" Amid the present 15-year-old Chinese anarchy, Chiang Kai-shek is at tempting to create a strong Chinese government and has employed Michael Borodin and everyone else who would aid him. A Cantonese Government of all China would undoubtedly be laid out on modified principles of Communism. If stable, such a government would be preferred even by the Conservatives in Downing Street to another 15 years of Chinese anarchy, as the best...
...present there are in China three main contenders for power, Chang Tsolin, in the North, Feng Yo-hsi-hsiang in the West, and Chiang Kai-shek in the South. Of these three there is only one, the southern general, Chang, who really has the true interests of his country at heant...
...Today, the Canton Progressives, or Nationalists, whose political driving force is the Kuo-Min-Tang or 'People's Party', are in possession of nearly a third of China. They have succeeded more than any previous ruling group in subordinating the military to the civil departments. Their general, Chiang Kai-shek has proved himself a tactician and politician of rare ability. He has unified a 'solid South' to combat the Northern militarists and to espouse the cause of reform...