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...predicted five months ago when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek returned from his kidnapping at the hands of General Yang Fu-cheng and Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, (TIME, Jan. 4), Kidnapper Yang last week announced that he was leaving the country. But not in disgrace, not as a prisoner. Kidnapper Yang let it be known that he had accepted a commission from Kidnappee Chiang to "investigate military and economic conditions in the United States and Europe." For pocket money and traveling expenses it was an nounced that the Chinese Treasury had given...
...first China Clipper transpacific air mail to Hongkong, Cinemactress Luise Rainer (The Good Earth) sent Mme Chiang Kai-shek six peach trees...
...served throughout the remainder of the Russian civil war, and rose to be one of their best commanders. After it he went to Hamburg, where he organized the Communist storm troops. In 1927 he was in China, leading one group of the Red Armies against Chiang Kai-shek." Over exactly how the present International Column was organized and hurled into Spain just as Madrid's defenses were about to crumble, Communist Sympathizer Cox draws a veil, simply recording: "General Kleber was at the head of the first brigade of the International Column which arrived in Madrid on that fateful...
Prime mover in Mongokuo's "independence movement," and Dictator Chiang Kai-shek's Bogieman No. 1, last week was triple-chinned Mongol Prince Teh, who for months past has dominated Mongokuo under Japan's aegis. Exclaimed a Chinese traveler, just returned to Shanghai after a six-month visit to Mongokuo: "I am astonished that the world has not heard of this new state!" For months Mongokuo has had a de facto government, headed by Prince Teh, together with an army of some 10,000 Mongolians and Manchukuoans officered and commanded by Japanese. Governmental departments are headed...
...hired last week to fly her personal plane U. S. Citizen Julius Barr, onetime air chauffeur to Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang who recently kidnapped her husband (TIME, Dec. 21 et seq.). Modern Mme Chiang is expected to visit the U. S. soon, explain to Christian women's clubs about her Methodist husband's sore troubles as Dictator...