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Meanwhile, at Shanghai, the French Colony was displaying such complacence toward the new Chinese Nationalist Government that U. S. and British residents in the French quarter expressed uneasiness lest the French intended to allow Chiang Kaishek, the Chinese Nationalist Generalissimo, to assume control of the French Concession. Since U. S. and British marines were heaping up more sandbags and stringing more barbed wire every day to defend their quarter, the attitude of the French and Japanese caused extreme resentment among Anglo-Saxons at Shanghai...
...Chiang* and Chang* have heretofore been the most potent names in current China, but last week was added the great name of Wang Ching-wei. He arrived from France at Shanghai; and as he strode smiling down the gangplank there seemed a chance that he may become the cohesive politician whom China so sorely needs...
Returning from exile after the Chinese revolution, Wang became the political right hand man of the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, founder of the Nationalist Government, just as Chiang became Dr. Sun's most trusted general. Indeed only ten months ago, Wang was Chairman* of the Central Executive Committee of the Nationalist Government. But he was ousted by the Nationalist radicals and retired to France just before the Nationalist army set out from Canton (TIME, Sept. 6 et seq.) on its successful campaign to capture all South China. How did Wang return from France so dramatically last week...
...Since Chiang captured Shanghai the breach between himself and the Nationalist politicians at Hankow has grown so wide that it is even rumored that the Nationalist Central Executive Committee has dismissed Chiang as Generalissimo, through this he has denied...
Obviously, Chiang's cue was to secure the return of Wang whose views are consonant with his own; and then to launch a political campaign to consolidate the Nationalists around Chiang and Wang, both of whom enjoy considerable prestige as men close to the late Dr. Sun in his last years...