Word: yatsen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chiang was first portrayed OH the cover in 1927 as a grave young Nationalist leader and heir to DR. SUN YATSEN. His goal today is the same as it was then: the unification of all China. To put the goal in geographic perspective, TIME illustrates the story with graphic four-color maps of Formosa, mainland China in panorama, and an azimuthal equidistant projection (Cartographer R. M. Chapin Jr.'s jawbreaking term for it) of the Generalissimo's target, Red China...
...Yatsen, 64, sister...
...Come & Be Free." The Chinese prisoners came in columns of five, and proudly, out of the neutral zone (see NEWS IN PICTURES). The first two men flourished pictures of Chiang Kai-shek and of Sun Yatsen, the founder of China's republic. The tight-drawn ranks bore red, white and blue Nationalist banners, the Stars and Stripes, the pale blue and white of the U.N. Some P.W.s wielded crude, homemade flagstaffs, their jagged points torn from beer cans. A few kept their prison camp basketballs. One clasped a French horn. "Dear anti-Communist comrades," boomed a loudspeaker...
...soon went abroad as a Communist legman, fomented abortive "workers' revolutions" in Spain (1919) and Mexico (1920), directed Communist infiltration of labor unions in the U.S. and Scotland. In 1923 came Agitator Borodin's big assignment: advising (and infiltrating) China's struggling revolutionary movement under Sun Yatsen. With some Moscow gold and his own silver tongue, he engineered a working alliance between Communists and Nationalists, showed Sun Yat-sen how to organize the Kuomintang on the tight Moscow pattern, including a Soviet-type secret police. Borodin barely escaped when Chiang Kai-shek turned against the Communists...
...prize catch of the Communist Peoples Congress for Peace. The others were such familiar faces as the Rev. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, Madame Sun Yatsen, Ilya Ehrenburg and Frédéric Joliot-Curie. But the congress needed a bigger new star than Sartre to revive public interest in its three-year-old slogans. Even a new Peace Dove by Picasso-soaring now, and plumper than the first one-and a street-sprinting exhibition by Czech Olympic Runner Emil Zatopek failed to draw crowds...