Word: yuan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There Still Time?" Investigator Mansfield thought that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's newly reorganized Government showed promise of accomplishing sorely needed reforms. War Minister Chen Cheng seemed determined to improve China's poorly fed, poorly trained, poorly led army. Foreign Minister and acting head of the Executive Yuan, T. V. Soong appeared a good choice to stop China's spiraling inflation, civilian profiteering. But, asked Mansfield, "has Chiang gone far enough, or does he intend to, and is there still time? China used to be able to trade space for time but now she has very little...
...package are powers over production, priorities, allocation, exports & imports, transportation. It is a sort of combination WPB-OPA-FEA-ODT-WMC, responsible solely to Chiang Kai-shek as the all-powerful President of the Executive Yuan and chairman of the National Military Council...
...rely upon China. Somehow China and Chiang found the strength. Chiang gave his armies a new, energetic Minister of War-young, able General Chen Cheng (TIME, Nov. 27). Just as important, Chiang had reorganized his civil administration. To China's No. 2 job, Acting President of the Executive Yuan, he appointed China's ablest administrator, his brother-in-law, Foreign Minister Tse-veng ("T.V.") Soong. The crisis - military, economic and political - was now at hand. On its outcome rested not only the future of Chiang Kai-shek's Government, but the future of China...
Exile's Education. But the new Republic died practically in its swaddling clothes. Within a year, ambitious Yuan Shih-Kai, a former Manchu general, had taken over. Again Dr. Sun fled abroad. This time the Soongs, who were deeply involved in his political schemes, went with him. For almost two years they lived the life of fugitive revolutionists, under assumed names, in Japan. But even in exile Charlie Soong and his wife never gave up one ambition: a U.S. education for their children...
...Japanese were 310 miles from Chungking (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). In China's darkest hour Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek girded his Government for the trial. He appointed his able, U.S.educated brother-in-law, Foreign Minister T. V. Soong, the Executive Yuan's Acting President. He relieved his brother-in-law and former Finance Minister H. H. Kung, now in the U.S., of the vice presidency. (Another likely appointment: Dr. Wu Ting-chang, banker and Kweichow Governor, as Executive Yuan Secretary...