Word: yuan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leaders were General Chang Chun, 60, governor of Szechwan, once known as the Gissimo's "one-man brain trust," and Dr. Wu Ting-chang, 56, banker, expublisher of the influential Ta Rung Pao, and governor of Kweichow. The appointment of T. V. Soong as President of the Executive Yuan or the inclusion of the Political Science Group in the Government would indicate how far Chiang intended to go in liberalizing his regime. Said Ta Kung Pao last week: "Now is the time" for more changes "to increase administrative efficiency...
...These were the men who had helped steer China through the country's most difficult years of war. Now it was up to their successors to steer through the difficult years ahead. But H. H. Kung remained as vice president of the Executive Yuan. General Ho remained as Army chief of staff...
...Chia-hua became Minister of Education, replacing Kuomintang bigwig Chen Li-fu, who took over the Ministry of Kuomintang Organization. Liberal, professorial Dr. Wang Shih-chieh became Minister of Information, replacing Liang Han-chao, who received the portfolio of Overseas Affairs. Chang Li-sheng, Secretary General of the Executive Yuan, became Minister of the Interior, replacing Chou Chung-yao, who took the vice-presidency of the Examination Yuan...
...Wang was now a leftist, now a rightist. When Chiang drove the Chinese Communists and their Russian advisers out of the Kuomintang and China, Wang again went abroad to rest up and intrigue. Later he made peace with Chiang, returned to China to become president of the Executive Yuan (equivalent to premier) in the Government...
...Japanese were also ready with a new Nanking puppet: Chen Kung-po, 54, Columbia University alumnus, ex-president of the Nanking Legislative Yuan...