Word: chiangs
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...trim khaki, eschewing gold braid and gaudy epaulets, the 1935 model Chinese field marshals, generals and satraps gathered in Nanking last week. Almost every Chinese of importance was there. Never before had China's Methodist Dictator, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, drawn around himself quite so many of China's military élite. Even the great has-been among Chinese war lords, strapping, whimsical and always surprising "Christian Marshal" Feng Yu-hsiang, trekked down from his retirement near the Tai Shan ("Sacred Mountain") to announce good humoredly that he is "now a devout Buddhist...
...have their group photograph taken last week the militant galaxy took their places on the steps of Kuomintang Party Headquarters with Dictator Chiang, Dummy President Lin Sen and Premier Wang Ching-wei. Among Chinese politicians the Premier rated last week as the most ardent and ablest exponent of the kite & string foreign policy for China and he was not only Premier but also Foreign Minister...
Though shot as pro-Japanese last week, Premier Wang might just as well have been shot a few years ago as pro-Bolshevik. As recently as 1928 he was hobnobbing in Moscow. Soviet gold financed the Chinese civil war which enabled General Chiang to set up the Nanking Government with himself as Dictator (TIME, April 25, 1927). This week prompt Japanese rage at Nanking's fresh talk of Russia erupted in grim remarks by Japanese militarists that at the first real sign of a Nanking switchback toward Moscow, soldiers of the Divine Emperor will drive a Japanese wedge...
...Nanking the élite of China could reflect that, for every dollar they have accepted from Japanese, Russians and other "foreign devils," they have seldom returned 3 cents worth of satisfaction. In passing, the Nanking Government blandly revealed last week that on Oct. 20 a stupendous explosion of Generalissimo Chiang's munition dump in Kansu Province killed over 2,000 Chinese. Hundreds of families were buried amid the debris of their collapsed homes and wiped out by the explosion was the military hospital in which wounded might have been treated. Gravely wounded lay German Catholic Missionary Bishop Buddenbrock...
Canton's head man, Marshal Chen Chi-tang, seized the moment to insult Nanking and Generalissimo Chiang: "The Southeast will never witness a duplication of the spectacle of more than 100,000 Chinese soldiers evacuating an immense area without firing a shot in obedience to demands of the heads of the Japanese Army. . . . If Nanking orders the Southeast to agree to any unreasonable Japanese demands, we would refuse to obey and would stand up and tight for China's rights...