Word: weis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Traveling mysteriously about Japanese-conquered China last week was a suave, subtle Oriental named Wang Ching-wei. Seven months ago this Chinese statesman was one of the powers at Chungking, China's temporary capital; last week he was reported about to become Japan's No. 1 puppet at Peking, seat of the North China Government. From Chungking to Peking these days is a longer distance ideologically than geographically, and the fact that Mr. Wang, elder revolutionary, onetime collaborator with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, one of the old "Big Three" in Chinese affairs,* has made the ideological as well as geographical trip...
...tangy and pungent as a 25-year-old egg. While Musician Sung Yue-tuh drew subtle wheezes from the sheng (4,639-year-old ancestor of the harmonica), and Wang Wen-piao sawed at his erh-hu (two-string fiddle), the audience took it politely. But when Professor Wei Chung-loh of China's Ta Tung National Research Institute swung out on his p'i p'a (traditional guitar of the ancient Chinese princes), they cheered...
Fortnight ago former Premier Wang Ching-wei, prominent Nationalist Party leader and member of China's United Resistance Front, suddenly flew from Chungking, the temporary capital, to Hanoi, capital of French Indo-China. From there, it was reported last week, he sent a telegram to Generalissimo Chiang declaring that Japanese "proposals" of late December (which, if accepted, would have made China a Japanese puppet state) constituted a "fair" basis for peace discussion...
...Government over ten years ago (TIME, May 2, 1927, et ante) "now fear the common people of China more than they do the Japanese, and would compromise with Japan . . . but the Communists are firm for resistance." A censored Hankow dispatch quoted Kuomintang Central Political Council Chairman Wang Ching-wei as announcing: "In the event that the Communist Party at any time revives the Class Struggle, there will be danger of a break with the Kuomintang...
Despite nonsuccess with Chiang Wei-kuo, the New Life Movement otherwise was successfully enforced. The Generalissimo & Mme Chiang had individuals whom they trusted planted unobtrusively in all branches of the Government. These spies for Puritanism reported direct, and in Nanking not a few errant officials' careers were mysteriously broken...