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...Conqueror" Chiang Kai-shek whose nationalist armies recently swept across one-half of China, (TIME, Sept. 29, 1926 et req.) returned last week, a man abased and fallen, to his home and birthplace, the little village of Fenghwa, 100 miles south of Shanghai...
...came in the dense blackness between midnight and dawn?for in China one who has "lost face" does well to hide his features. A 'faithful secretary would say only: "General Chiang Kaishek is with his family here and is going into retirement indefinitely, seeking rest following a year of superhuman efforts to further the nationalist cause...
Meanwhile Occidental correspondents at Shanghai were sweating with Chinese interpreters over a momentous 7,000-word document? the official resignation of Chiang Kai-shek as Generalissimo of the Nationalist armies...
Resignation. Addressing himself to "The Chinese People" General Chiang reviewed in his resignation the initial brilliant success of the nationalist movement and its present heartbreaking disintegration. "Our revolution got into difficulties because of communism," declared General Chiang, and then mourned that his own ruthless anti-communist activities had been interpreted by many Nationalists as aggrandizement so that "My nationalist comrades subsequently in almost all cases lost confidence...
...declared that "three roads" now lie before China: 1) "The road to Communism" which, Sun Fo declared, has now been utterly abandoned by his party; 2) "The road to Fascism," now being followed, said Sun Fo, by his one-time ally the "traitor-militarist" Chiang Kai-shek (See above); and 3) "The road to Nationalism," as originally pointed out by the late, sainted...