Word: warlord
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Acting President Li Tsung-jen took off on an inspection tour of his native Kwangsi province. Last week, he stepped off a plane in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, announced he would enter a hospital for treatment of an old gastric ailment. In Chungking, wily old Shansi warlord Yen Hsi-shan, Taiyuan's unsuccessful defender (TIME, June 13), stepped into Li's place. Secretaries kept Li's office open, but no one really thought that he would be back...
Gone from the Northwest was the former Nationalist hope and Moslem warlord, Governor Ma Pufang of Chinghai (TIME, June 6). Burly, black-bearded Ma had been driven by superior Communist force from his capital Sining. A dispirited fugitive, he rested in a Hong Kong flat last week. But, unlike Fu and Tung, Ma was not ready to bow to Moscow. Last week he announced that he would shortly leave-by airplane on a long pilgrimage to Mecca...
...mountain hideout overlooking a black sand beach on Formosa's southern coast, he had come to give counsel and approval to plans for converting the island into a Nationalist redoubt. China's war had entered a phase of last-ditch peripheral resistance. In the far Northwest, Moslem Warlord Ma Pufang was using his hard-riding horsemen to harry the Communist inland flank (TIME, June 27). From Formosa the Gimo's remnant navy and air force, carrying on a blockade of sorts, were needling the Communist coastal flank...
More Than a Soldier. After Sun Yat-sen's death in 1925, Chiang, leading the Kuomintang army, resolved to break out of the Canton pocket and overthrow the government at Peking. The Nationalist revolution rolled north, defeating one warlord after another. In the Northern Expedition, one of the great military exploits of the century, Chiang showed himself much more than a soldier. Skillfully, he played one warlord off against another. He won the confidence of the commercial class, traditionally distrustful of soldiers; the bankers backed Chiang-as the stabilizing force in China. In July 1928, Chiang triumphantly entered Peking...
...Chiang Kai-shek is a man of principle, not an opportunist, not a warlord, not (his enemies finally admitted) a grafter. His principles, however, are not always clear or consistent. The conflict between the old and new, unresolved in China, is also unresolved in China's Chiang. He had been right so often, when those around him were wrong, that taking advice did not come easily to him. Three times-from Canton, from Sian, and from Chungking-he had fought his way out of hopeless situations. Such an experience might breed arrogance, and many believe that Chiang is arrogant...