Word: yat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Background information of the Chinese revolution, a major problem facing the foreign ministers at Moscow, will be given by John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, tonight over WHCN. Fairbank will be featured in "Armchair Audit" at 9 o'clock, when he will deliver his History 83 lecture, "Sun Yat Sen and Chiang KaiShek...
...afternoon session, Christmas Day, brought a simple, stirring final ceremony. Two men, representing the Assembly and the Government, came on the stage under Sun Yat-sen's huge portrait. One was old Wu Chih-hui, dean of the delegates, in satin jacket, skirt and slippers. The other was Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, in white gloves and military khaki. An Army band played the national anthem. The crowded Assembly bowed three times before Sun's likeness; Wu mumbled Sun's will. Then from the chairman's aged hand the Gimo received the Constitution, bound in red and gold...
Limited Victory. When the subcommittees reported to the steering committee, the diehards reached their high-water mark, angrily amended the first article to eliminate the Lincolnesque phrase "of the people, by the people, for the people," kept only Sun Yat-sen's credo of government on the basis of "Three People's Principles." Screamed the middle groups: "Since only one party is enacting the constitution, who will hold the Assembly?" Carson Chang, boss of the Democratic Socialists, wired from Shanghai instructions that his delegation must not yield to the Kuomintang diehards on Articles...
...minority harmful to an enlightened program. But in spite of the tactful whitewash masking the Kuomintang government, the reports trickling out of China point to Chiang, not as a liberal ruler, but as a feudal baron eager for an absolute dictatorship. Returning G.I.'s, foreign correspondents, and Madame Sun Yat Sen question the pledges of Chiang, with tales of concentration camps, gruesome political murders, and widespread governmental corruption. The reports state that instead of the supposed progress in Nationalist controlled areas, China is still wallowing in the same old rut of poverty, famine, and ignorance, under the yoke...
Since Sun Yat-sen's death I have done my best to conform with his every word, however imperfectly. . . . Now, at 60, I can tell you that I have no political ambitions. ... I fear I can no longer do the job as well as formerly. I must give the responsibility back to the people, and the people must learn to protect their rights. . . . But in the present situation, while the people are learning, I believe the Double Fifth constitution is not suitable. . . . Don't pass an inadequate or impractical constitution, lest China be harmed. Consider the rights...