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Rich expatriate Chinese have contributed millions of dollars to the cause of President Chiang Kaishek. Astute, he has just built at Nanking a $240,000 ''Guest House" in which visiting Chinese donors and prospective donors will be sumptuously entertained. In style it is an Imperial Palace of Old China. Its spacious gardens spread over nine mow (1½ acres). Pompously the small, shrill-voiced, wasp-waisted President inaugurated this gilded trap for contributions. Then, briskly he set out on his long promised military campaign to crush bandits & rebels (TIME, June...
...Marshal Chiang Kai-shek was re-elected President of China last week?not by the Chinese people, for they have no vote, but by the fifth Congress of his "People's Party" in Nanking...
...last week President Chiang had not kept his promise to march inland from Nanking and exterminate China's Communist Generals or personally die in the attempt. But last week Chiang's Government admitted that the Communist Generals have recently "slaughtered or otherwise disposed of 20.000 Government troops in a series of encounters in Kiangsi. Hunan and Fukien provinces." Promiser Chiang promised to send 200,000 troops to rout the Reds...
...elected with President Chiang was his great fiscal backer Finance Minister T. V. Soong, potent Shanghai banker and head of the "Soong Dynasty" which rules all central China from behind what its enemies call "Nanking's rococo facade...
...Behind Nanking's rococo façade, which some foreigners have helped to erect, there is working a political system, or rather a family corporation whose idea of running the country is the management and exploitation of China as the property of Chiang Kai-shek and his so-called family...