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Firmly last week General Chiang Kaishek, who left China virtually without a Government fortnight ago by resigning as President, hopping into a plane, and soaring off to his country estate, announced: "I will not open any letters or telegrams...
...this promise General Chiang stuck, disregarded all appeals from Nanking to come back and make some sort of compromise with the Cantonese statesmen who had forced him out (TIME, Dec. 28). They in Nanking last week dominated one of the most savagely bickering sessions of the Central Executive Committee of the Nationalist Party or Kuomintang ever held. Aloof like General Chiang stood his brother-in-law, Dr. T. V. Soong, China's No. 1 banker and reputedly the only Chinese who as Finance Minister can get enough money together to keep a Chinese Government going. In Shanghai last week...
...Nanking nervous, high-strung little Chinese President Chiang Kaishek, who has been squabbling for months with the other Chinese Government (the one at Canton), abruptly resigned, announcing that Canton leaders would come north and take over the Nanking,Government. Panic stricken, Mrs. Chiang (Wellesley '17) fled by plane from Nanking to safety in the International Settlement at Shanghai...
...effect China was left without a Government, for the more prominent members of General Chiang's cabinet resigned with him. Cantonese suspected a trap, feared that on the arrival of their leaders to take over the Nanking Government, these leaders might be slain by soldiers still loyal to General Chiang who would set himself up again as President. Meanwhile Nanking weltered in a series of patriotic riots by Chinese "students" who have not studied for months, preferring to hurl bricks and assault Chinese statesmen in protest against their "weak policy...
Japan's $1,000,000,000. In the light of Old Uncle Chang's emergence and the resignation of President Chiang Kai-shek (see above"] the first interview granted to Tokyo correspondents last week by Premier Ki ("Old Fox") Inukai lost much of its quaint, cackling obscurity, became significant and fairly clear. With a bony forefinger the white-bearded Premier traced an imaginary map of Manchuria on the jade-green cover of the table behind which...