Word: weis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...route to the conference last week owl-eyed Premier Wang Ching-Wei set an example of close-lipped secrecy which was followed by all except Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung, stogie-smoking Christian descendant of Confucius. He felt obliged to comment on President Roosevelt's nationalization of silver as he stepped aboard an airplane at Shanghai. Said Dr. Kung: "We also would like to nationalize silver but for China this is impossible because our Government is hampered by extraterritorial treaties. We do not want the price to skyrocket, for silver is vital to our national life...
Nanking troop trains continued to rush soldiers down to the Fukien front, but Generalissimo Chiang did not follow them. He developed a fresh interest in his anti-Communist campaign in Kiangsi. Meanwhile the Fukien rebels continued to demand that both Generalissimo Chiang and Nanking Premier Wang Ching-wei resign. Wang and Chiang reacted in a way which showed that Fukien and its famed 19th Route Army are gaining prestige. Said the Premier: "It is impossible for the Government to dispense with Generalissimo Chiang's services at the present juncture of the anti-Communist campaign, but if the people...
...Chinese Government promised to issue no more bonds for three years, if China's bankers would subscribe their uttermost then. Subscribe they did. Last week they looked to Dr. Soong to make the Government keep its promise. Abruptly the promise was knocked galley-east when Premier Wang Ching-wei announced that the Government will issue $100.000,000 of Treasury notes "repayable in 150 monthly payments''-i.e. long-term securities, virtually bonds which will not be fully paid off for twelve long years...
...Soong will be China's General Johnson, assisted by his sister's stepson, potent Sun Fo (son of China's "George Washington," the late great Dr. Sun Yatsen) and Premier Wang Ching-wei. These three, according to the Chinese NEC law gazetted last week, will have "power to improve economic conditions, control and plan productive enterprises and protect the interests of workers." Just how they would do this Dr. Soong & colleagues were not quite sure last week, but they thought they might start by imposing some sort of code on China's cotton mills, predominantly owned...
...truce with Japan (TIME, June 5). Since then Japanese have loudly applauded Chiang's ''reasonableness," confessed their "satisfaction"' with the attitude of Huang Fu, chief of the North China Political Council. Japanese diplomacy was making rapid headway among Nanking officials. Pacific-minded Premier Wang Ching-wei took over the Foreign Ministry. But last week there was tense anticipation in Nanking. Across the Pacific steamed the S. S. President Jefferson bringing home able Minister Soong, famed for his uncompromising policy toward Japan. Japan cocked a belligerent eye on "any new developments in China's political situation...