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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently-kidnapped Premier Chiang rested in quiet retirement this week and his recent kidnapper, young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, although pardoned by the Nanking Government (TIME Jan. 11) was still under such extremely heavy guard last week that it was difficult to say whether or not he was in custody...
Meanwhile, last week in Nanking the recently kidnapped Dictator and his erstwhile kidnapper, Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, held in great privacy under heavy military guard a long conference about what were described as "their private interests." That the Kidnapper and Kidnappee should have private interests was enough to prime everyone's curiosity and it was soon at bursting point. In Government circles it was said that the Young Marshal was going to be tried before the Dictator by some Chinese judges and jurors and that their verdict would be ten years in jail, followed by commutation of this...
There was every reason this week to continue to suspect that the events at Sian, clouded by side issues of kidnapping, ransom and highjacking, were basically an exploration and feeling out of each other by the Chinese Communists and Dictator Chiang. Young Marshal Chang, after waiting around in Finance Minister Kung's house for four days, received from the Chinese Government full pardon and restoration of his civil rights, walked out scot free as the kidnapping profession's outstanding Boy Who Made Good...
Unquestionably cashhe kidnappee must lead China into an immediate war with Japan (TIME, Dec. 21 et seq.)arrive in ostentatious military regalia. The Generalissimo changed to civilian clothes and flew ahead to Nanking, followed two hours later by the Young Marshal in a cheap Chinese cotton-lined robe, veritable sackcloth & ashes. The Generalissimo was met by China's elderly Puppet President Lin Sen and 200,000 cheering Nankingese. The kidnapper drove quietly through back streets to settle down as the house guest of Ransomer T. V. Soonganding out thousands of words evidently concocted by mutual agreement to dispose of China...
...welfare of the country then anybody may consider me a traitor and may shoot me. ... If my words and deeds are in the least insincere, if I neglect the ideals of our Revolution, my soldiers may treat me as their enemy and may also shoot me. ... As you, Chang Hsueh-liang, have rectified the mistake [kidnapping] at an early stage and the crisis has not been prolonged, I believe the Nanking Government will be lenient with you. ... If I made any promises to you or signed anything while at Sian it would amount to destruction of the Chinese Nation...