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...both negotiators a little too polite and slow. Suddenly student exuberance boiled over, and a mob rushed to hurl brickbats and curses at the walls which sheltered Dr. Wang and M. Yada. Loomed a diplomatic incident of gravest sort. Only quick action by one of the Nationalist "Big Three"-Chiang, Feng or Yen (TIME, Dec. 24)-could stop the brickbatting, dispose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Treaty Riot | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

Fortunately the President of China, Marshal Chiang Kaishek, is quick. Not five minutes after he received a frantic phone call from Dr. Wang, there was heard in the streets of Nanking the piercing siren of the presidential Packard (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Treaty Riot | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

With four soldiers clinging to hand grips on the sides of his limousine, and with two more soldiers on the box behind, President Chiang Kai-shek sped to the scene. As the mob of students sullenly parted to let him through, and then closed in behind, Marshal Chiang faced a nasty situation. The so-called "students" are really a conglomeration of all the younger and more violent partisans of the Nationalist regime. They would have to be wooed and harangued, not bluntly ordered to disperse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Treaty Riot | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...often are, it was freely rumored that Yen and his Shansi were at best holding aloof and at worst were likely to attack Nanking. Last week, however, the Marshal pompously approached "Southern Capital" upon his private train, accompanied by wife and retinue. At the station stood slender, waspish President Chiang Kaishek, and strapping War Minister Feng Yu-hsiang. As Yen joined Chiang and Feng, press photographers snapped "China's Big Three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Yen to Nanking | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

Responsible to the Central Executive Committee are the Political Council and the State Council. The former is a propaganda and political strategy bureau. The latter is unique; but may be called a super-cabinet. The President of the State Council or super-cabinet is Marshal Chiang Kaishek, who is by courtesy "The President of China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Yen to Nanking | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

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