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...question was, last week, "Will the Nationalists maintain in the present hour of victory that unity which has made their victory possible?" Already there are rumors of political dissention in the Nationalist ranks; but last week Chiang Kaishek, surrounded by his potent, mobile, efficiently modern bodyguard, seemed well equipped to master the half of China he has conquered...
Life came to Chiang Kai-shek 39 years ago in a tiny village near Ningpo in Chekiang Province. He ran away from being apprenticed to a merchant and embraced the career of arms, winning a scholarship at the Military Academy of Yuan Shih-kai, the Great Northerner, in far-Northern Chili. Later, he was sent by the Manchu Government to study at the Imperial Japanese Military College, Tokyo...
With the zeal typical of a converted sinner Chiang threw himself into active fighting in the cause of the great Dr. Sun Yatsen, late "Father of the Chinese Republic." Dr. Sun was at this time experiencing reverses, having been driven from Canton, his capital, by his own War Minister. Soon Chiang Kai-shek with 10,000 men had materially assisted in driving the traitor War Minister out of Canton, and back to his walled stronghold Waichow, a city deemed impregnable...
...question was, how to capture Waichow. Dr. Sun's generals declared the task impossible. Chiang Kai-shek asked to be admitted to lay his plan before the great...
...then. He may have already decided that Chiang should be the sun to rise out of his own setting. They were believed never to have met; but when the young general entered, Dr. Sun rose dramatically to his feet, scanned carefully the face of Chiang Kaishek, and exclaimed: "Ah! Here is the second Sun Yatsen. He shall one day take my place! . . . Explain your project, Oh young and rising...