Word: warlords
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...these reforms could not be achieved under Chiang. Having broken with the Communists in 1927, Chiang's alignment with the right-wing of the Kuomintang is portrayed by the authors as his retreat from dynamism into the morass of warlord-infested intrigue government. Mr. White and Miss Jacoby are not alone in diagnosing complete cynicism and corruption as the secondary invaders of the diseased Kuomintang body politic. This accusation is not fiction, but page after page of documented fact that will force thinking Americans to search about for an alternative to an ally-government that is bringing China to misery...
...still wallowing in the same old rut of poverty, famine, and ignorance, under the yoke of a regime unsupported by a great majority of the people. These generally obscured accounts seem to indicate that Chiang is in no sense of the word, a "democrat," but is instead, a totalitarian warlord. By feeding his war machine, the United States is injuring the Chinese people and is denying its own principles of government...
...Warlord of Mazelaine-champion boxer-TIME, Feb. 25] in a show last year, and I found that he was very conceited in his own doggish manner. Could it be that he realizes his importance in the dog world? I don't think it is like a boxer to act this way, but such is life when you have all the things you want...
...Fact. The Chinese Government asked Donald to establish a Bureau of Economic Information to gather the little-known facts about China and tell them to the Chinese and to the world. Donald did. In 1928, the Old Marshal, Chang Tso-lin, Warlord of Manchuria, uttered a frantic call for his services. Donald served him and, later, his son, Chang Hsueh-liang, until Chiang Kai-shek called him, soon after Japan invaded China...
Model Town. In Kenanpo the news men met aged, wily Yen Hsi-shan, an old-style but relatively progressive warlord. Once he was an enemy of Chiang Kaishek, is now his honored representative. The slippered old man, in a private's uniform, told them of his program to out smart the Communists by improving administration, lifting the lot of the peasant. But Yen's main job was to watch the Japanese, 20 miles to the east. The news men watched coolies singsong a dismantled truck up the cliff, for use on the highway leading to the static front...