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...same time, Professor A. N. Holcombe '06 of the Government Department will deliver a course of six lectures on the spirit of the Chinese Revolution. Sun-Yat-Sen and the spirit of democracy, Borodin and Bolshevism, Chiang Kai-sek and militarism, Feng Yu-hsiang and religion, T. V. Soong and capitalism, and C. T. Wang and modern science will be among the characters discussed...
...kept his promise to give Chinese citizens a Bill of Rights. That telling criticism was ignored. Instead the Shanghai Committee concentrated on the fact that erudite Hu Shih had pointed out what seemed to him certain deficiencies and puerilities in the writings of the late famed Dr. Sun Yat sen, father of the Nationalist Government, sainted founder of the Party, who now reposes and is daily adored in a $5,000,000 marble tomb on the Purple Mountain (TIME, June...
...doubted!?that was something on which the Committee could vote unanimously and instantaneously with a clear conscience. "We recommend Dr. Hu for severe punishment," read their resolution. "We petition the Central Executive Committee to effect his arrest for having publicly insulted the late leader of the party, Sun Yat sen, and destructively criticized his ideals, which must be considered as an act of treason against the government and the people...
...Marshal Feng meant the governing group which has ruled the Nationalist Party for so long; a group headed by Finance Minister T. V. Soong, President Chiang Kai-Shek, Minister of Commerce H. H. Kung. The last two are both married to sisters of Finance Minister Soong. Potent Mme. Sun Yat-Sen. Dr. Sun's widow, is another Soong...
...last of the Chinese militarists would be removed from power and the Government could fall into the hands of civilians, one of Dr. Sun's most cherished ambitions. Further, wrote Marshal Feng, President Chiang had often promised to retire to private life after the final funeral of Sun Yat-Sen (TIME, June 3). Was this not the moment? In case the "Soong Dynasty" should not fall in with his altruistic scheme, Marshal Feng ordered his private train in readiness to carry him from the interior to Peking, hinted at an imminent visit to Canada...