Word: warlord
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delayed naming a supreme puppet government for all her conquered territory in China for the simple reason that no respected top-flight Chinese leader is willing to head it. The most respected Chinese figure not fighting on the side of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is China's oldtime warlord General Wu Pei-fu, once master of middle China before the Generalissimo deposed him in 1926. He is respected for his eccentricity (he is followed wherever he goes by a faithful spittoon-bearer) and because he is as wily as Ulysses. Some time ago he was reported willing...
...stirring moment for many an old German Army officer comes on January 27, when, standing at rigid attention, he drinks a birthday toast to his old Warlord and ex-Kaiser. Last week Adolf Hitler brushed this sentimentality aside, forbade his officers to toast the old Kaiser, 80 this week, ordered them to leave all restaurants and other public places where such gestures were made. Gracious exception was made for officers who belong to the Hohenzollern family. They may drink to the health of their abdicated kinsman at Doom...
...went on to describe how the kidnapped Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had been attempting to divide the armies an lessen the power of Marshal Chang Hseu-liang, former Manchurian warlord, and stated that if harm befell Chiang Kai-shek, a state of anarchy would ensue that might retard for 25 years the development of China...
...Government gather all its strength and fight Japan as best it can. These demands have been keynoted by the provincial leaders of Kwangsi and Kwangtung, who have even marched their armies into warily rebellious contact with those of Generalissimo Chiang (TIME, June 22). Last week Nanking split the Kwangtung warlords by the usual Chinese financial method. Kwangtung's No. 2 warlord General Yu Han-mou and nine battle planes landed in Nanking. Whereupon Chiang's parliament boldly dissolved the rebellious Kwangtung Government, named General Yu peace preservation chief in Kwangtung and sent him back south...
...much younger, larger, bigger-boned. Current dealings with Major General Kenji Doihara leave him no time for such books as that carried by the real man in the picture. The book happens to be a Bible, and the man himself deserves a greater place in U. S. hearts than Warlord Sung. He is Yao Chen-yuan, 80-year-old Chinese Christian, sole known survivor of the four native messengers who got through (and the dozen who didn't) with messages to Tientsin asking relief for the besieged legations in Peking during the Boxer Rebellion. Disguised as a beggar...