Word: yuan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day scholarly Dr. Sun Fo, president of the Legislative Yuan, made public the Government's plan for broadening its base. The State Council would be revived to become the top governing body. Non-Kuomintang members would be given seats; in effect, the Council would be a coalition, with the Kuomintang holding a dominant position...
...There is also an untested 849-word Basic Chinese, developed recently by Professor Chao Yuan Ren of China's Academia Sinica...
...resigned his post as China's Premier. To succeed him, he appointed his brother-in-law, hustling, bustling, U.S.-trained Tse-veng Soong, who since last December has been Acting Premier. Simultaneously, another brother-in-law, H. H. Kung, also resigned as Vice President of the Executive Yuan. For some time, Kung has been seriously ill with kidney trouble, in the U.S. To succeed Kung, the Generalissimo appointed scholarly Dr. Wong Wen-hao, boss of China's WPB. Dr. Kung retained his post as the Generalissimo's personal representative to the President of the United States. Chiang...
...Wang had offered what he called "important concessions." They had been formulated by himself and T. V. Soong, Acting President of the Executive Yuan and the Central Government's crack trouble shooter. To meet Yenan's demand for a democratic coalition government, Chungking was ready to give the Communists legal status and minority posts in the National Defense Council and Executive Yuan. To meet Yenan's demand for an all-party constitutional convention, Chungking offered to convoke an all-party meeting to consider "military and political unification pending a national congress." But when Chungking asked Yenan...
...long hall stood the Generalissimo in uniform. T. V. Soong, Acting President of the Executive Yuan, who usually wears a business suit, wore a Chinese gown. Other Chinese dignitaries flanked them. Two abreast, with Pat Hurley in the van, the Americans advanced toward the hall. At the entrance they bowed. Halfway down the hall they bowed again. Then they advanced 20 feet to the Generalissimo, bowed a third time...