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...Nanking known to President Hoover. Mr. Chen is now back in Canton exactly where he started in 1926. He even holds the same office, Foreign Minister. He has broken with the Chinese whom President Hoover knows as President of China and whose Government is at Nanking, wasp- waisted Marshal Chiang Kaishek. Last week Mr. Chen said of Marshal Chiang: "He has a medieval mind. He has begun to think of China as his personal property. He wants to be Emperor of China...
...Chen is the master propagandist of China. A fearless editor in his own right, he learned propaganda as assistant to the Soviet master of that art, Comrade Michael Borodin, whom Dr. Sun Yat Sen borrowed from Moscow and whom Marshal Chiang cast out after he had prepared Chiang's conquest. Last week Mr. Chen plastered all Canton (fourth largest Chinese city) with propaganda posters of Soviet type ridiculing President Chiang. The wasp-waisted, bandy-legged little President was shown perched ludicrously oh the Manchu Throne, bedight as Emperor of China. This cartoon, it was hoped, would "inflame the people...
...revolution at Canton, in the extreme South, last week was staged by General Chen Chitang, commander of the Eighth Army Corps, apparently in association with potent Politico Wang Chingwei. Both these men used to be intimates of President Chiang, broke with him some time ago, flayed him last week as a Dictator, called his Congress a fake. Upon seizing power, General Chen made the usual pretentions that all adjoining provinces had joined his revolt. In terror from Canton fled the Governor of the Province (Kwangtung), sagacious Chen Mingshu...
Next day the rebels claimed that War Minister Ho Yingching had joined them. He did not deny it. From Hankow he telegraphed to President Chiang with brutal frankness that 28,000 government troops in Kiangsi had just deserted to the Communists. Ordinarily such bad news would be kept secret...
...presence of Marshal Chang Hsuehliang in Nanking last week was the most important fact in China. Had the young marshal refused to come, had he made excuses tarrying up North in Peiping or Manchuria, the game of President Chiang would have been definitely up. The President's strength is now in the North, a paradox, for he got his start in the South at Canton, where revolution burst last week. From Canton in the brief space of two years (1926-28) President Chiang conquered all China. His only hope of maintaining this conquest now lies in the friendship...