Word: yang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week's news had no other effect, it certainly pepped up diplomatic gossip. Around the embassies went the story about Yang Chieh, Chinese Ambassador to Moscow: The day before the German-Russian pact was announced, Yang Chieh called on Russian Premier Viacheslav Molotov and asked what was up. Said he with Oriental suavity, he had heard rumors of a German-Russian plan to dismember Poland. . . . Thunderstruck, Premier Molotov gasped, drew back, while the veins of his forehead stood out in his apoplectic fury: this, he reminded his visitor, was the Soviet of Socialist Republics, the fatherland...
...504th Year 2nd 5th Moon, 10th Day (July 2. 1895), harassed King Li-Hsi of Chosen (Korea) signed away the mineral rights to 600 square miles of the Uhn San district of his sparse North Peng-Yang Province to a brilliant, Columbia City, Ind. promoter named Leigh S. J. Hunt. Three months later Li-Hsi was imprisoned, his wife assassinated by a Japanese-Korean junta. But by 1897 he was back, despotic as ever, under the advanced title of Emperor...
This hijacked kidnapping was easily the most important event of the year in Eastern Asia. While the Generalissimo was held captive in Sian, a stronghold surrounded by Chinese Communist armies with whom General Yang was on amicable terms, Dictator Chiang decided to reverse a basic policy of his Nanking Government -its hostility to Chinese Communists. For nearly ten years Chiang had fought the Reds and avoided fighting Japan. His Government now made peace with the Communists, announced proudly the "unification of China," and ever since Nanking has been taking a more & more courageous line with Tokyo. What General Yang personally...
...historic hijacking was last week smoothly called 'The Incident of 1936" by General Yang who explained in San Francisco: "It was to unite China...
...reporters wanted to know whether General Yang thinks his onetime captive, Dictator Chiang, is really in earnest now about hurling Chinese might against Japan, or may have to be kidnapped again. "If the Generalissimo leads the country to put up a strong resistance, the whole country will support him!" firmly replied General Yang, adding softly after a puff at his cigar: "If the Generalissimo does not put up a strong resistance-in that event I am not sure what would happen to our great leader...