Word: kuomingtang
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...when Edgar Snow evaded Chiang Kai Shek's Kuomingtang blockade of the Communist controlled Shensi province and first met Mao Tse Tung and his band of revolutionaries, most people in the outside world doubted that these Chinese "soviets" even existed. Snow's prediction of a Kuomingtang-Comunist alliance was widely discounted; his warning of a post-war victory for the revolution was almost completely ignored. In fact, Russia as well as the West scoffed at this so-called Communist movement, which possessed a peasant rather than prolctarian base. Up through the 1949 debacle, the Soviet Union continued to support Chiang...
...conference of the Kuomingtang (Sun Yat-Sen's Party), it was proposed that foreign concessions be abolished and that the Boxer indemnity be returned from all countries and utilized for development of education in China. Sun Yat-Sen's Party is that which keeps him in power at Canton, province of Kwang-Tung. Politically it is not adverse to a central government at Peking, but is violently opposed to the present Government, charging that President Tsao-Kun fraudulently manipulated the last elections (TIME...