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Until 1926, Chiang, was a revolutionary. Thereafter he fought the Communists as vigorously as he fought the Japs. A pious advocate of Confucian virtues, Warlord Chiang was also responsible, Gayn claims, for ten years of military bloodshed. Today, Author Gayn believes, Chiang is at once "a ruthless and intolerant man ... a pious Christian ... a canny politician ... a national unifier of the caliber of Bismarck and a petty and jealous political boss . . . consumed by a passion for power...
Wealthy absentee landlords - often in ca hoots with local warlords and bandits -have reduced China's millions to a primitive struggle for a daily bowl of rice. The measure of Chiang's greatness, says Gayn, of his rise in stature from warlord to national leader, will be his readiness to take up the struggle against his old confreres - the political bosses and the land lords. "If [he] succeeds he will truly be come one of the world's great figures...
Last week a cynical 20th-century warlord used 16th-Century emotions to turn a conquest into a crusade...
...Warlords and Statesmen. The tide of Teutonic conquest had flowed and ebbed for 2,000 years before it caught up with Wilhelm Hohenzollern and left him stranded when it briefly receded. The Warlord of Potsdam, as he talked of history's cry for leaders, must have thought of other German warlords who had ridden the tide of conquest when it flowed. He must have thought, as Adolf Hitler so often thinks, of the fear which has caused other peoples to fight against the tide for 2,000 years of history...
Even before Julius Caesar's time, the Germans were pushing against their western boundaries, and although Caesar drove them across the Rhine, the Romans never felt secure against them. The Kaiser must have thought of Germany's first warlord, whom the Romans called Arminius and the Germans Hermann der Cherusker, who in the First Century ambushed three legions of Romans in the Teutoburg Forest and ended Roman efforts to conquer Germany. Later on the Romans built an early Maginot Line, Limes Germanicus, between the Rhine and the Danube. But the Ro mans made the mistake of recruiting Germans...