Word: yat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign. Himself a Cantonese, Wang subtly appealed to his fellow Southerners on the grounds that South China, in olden times, was independent. What took the sting out of his subtlety was the fact that South China, in not-so-olden times, was the birthplace of National Savior Sun Yat-sen and the cradle of New China...
Wang Ching-wei was the favorite student of the revered Dr. Sun, wrote many of the Leader's manifestoes, even took down the famed Will that Dr. Sun Yat-sen delivered on his deathbed. He was a graduate of the Law College at Tokyo. He traveled often in Europe, learned to speak fluent French, several times took diabetes cures in Germany. He was there when the present war started. For more than two years he was China's Premier...
...Other "Big Three" members: Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and the late Hu Han-min, longtime chief secretary to Sun Yat...
With continued Soviet assistance vital to China's resistance, Chungking, the official capital, last week commemorated the 21st anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution on a scale not usually given to foreign celebrations. Newspapers featured side-by-side portraits of the Generalissimo, Stalin, Dr. Sun Yat-sen and Lenin. At a mass meeting, Dr. Sun Fo, president of the Chinese Legislative Council, declared that China's only "true and real friend" was Russia. Premier Dr. H. H. Kung praised the achievements of the Russian Revolution, then berated the Chinese for not having sacrificed enough for victory...
...TIME photographers. Unlike the original model, it showed the saint beardless and smiling, and the bird bath which once was planned for the top of St. Francis' head had been removed. San Franciscans who consider Sculptor Bufano's stainless steel and granite figure of Sun Yat-sen the finest statue in the city (TIME, Nov. 22, 1937) were wondering last week what this symmetrical mass will look like when 156 ft. high (five feet higher than the Statue of Liberty) and mounted on a 35-ft. base. Said Sculptor Bufano...