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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most powerful man in Eastern Asia should have been violently overpowered with the killing of 46 of his guards; lost his false teeth in the process; insisted upon reading the Bible during most of his 13 days' captivity at the hands of a "onetime dope fiend," Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang; and then should suddenly have returned by air to Nanking announcing that he himself was partly to blame for his own kidnapping and that the kidnappers had let him go partly because they had been much moved by reading some 50,000 words of his private daily diary covering...
Roughly speaking, the situation was that around Kidnappee Chiang were a few hundred troops of Kidnapper Chang and around them were a few thousand troops of General Yang, who might be considered as having highjacked the kidnapping. At much greater distance were thousands of troops of Kidnapper Chang's main army and also Nanking Government armies rushing toward Sian, while Nanking bomb ing planes of U. S. pattern wheeled ominously...
...Monday afternoon, fortunately, the Dictator who had been risking his life by his refusal to speak with desperate men, spoke-nay, he conversed. This conversation, like that of Mr. Baldwin and King Edward, was not so much about the tremendous issues at stake as about money. Of course Young Chang did not threaten to kill Dictator Chiang unless he was paid a given sum. That would have been nonsense. The position of each of these two Chinese was of such eminence and power that a few million dollars more or less was not to them what...
...Chiang apparently was of the opinion that Dr. Kung, in trying to race the Communists to Sian with his Government troops, was likely to upset Kidnapper Chang so much that he would murder her husband instead of joining up with the Dictator in a deal to fight Japan. It was rather tactless for Dr. Kung to say of her husband in an official broadcast by the Acting Premier last week, "While we are all anxious that Generalissimo Chiang may be rescued . . . our attitude is that the personal safety of one man should not be allowed to interfere. . . . It gives...
...Imperial Japanese Government, sorely uncertain this week, resorted to bluster. Tokyo Foreign Minister Arita did his best to intimidate acting Premier Kung with threats to the effect that Japan "demanded" no terms be made with Kidnapper Chang of a nature unfavorable to Japan...