Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other side of the world from Washington, however, that was brewing which might make the Kellogg Treaty absurd on the first day of its legal existence. Soviet Russia and Nationalist China, two of the signatories of the pact, were on the explosive verge...
Secretary of State Stimson, alive to the embarrassment of the situation, cogitated in his office. He could, of course, communicate what was on his mind to Nationalist China, but to Soviet Russia he could not speak. The U. S. does not recognize the Soviet's existence. Lawyerlike, Statesman Stimson remembered, got out, and ruffled the unused pages of the so-called Four-Power Treaty which the U. S., Britain, France and Japan drafted in 1921. A phrase in this treaty makes it possible for the Four Powers to discuss "freely and fully" almost any Far Eastern matter. Statesman Stimson...
...Young Plan is certainly better for Germany than the Dawes Plan, stormed Herr Stresemann. Turning to the Nationalist benches he rumbled: "You could do, nothing else, and if you were to take over, the Government tomorrow your first move would be to do exactly as we are doing; recognize the obligations of Germany in order not to endanger the unity of the nation. ... Do you imagine the Government views the Young Plan as ideal? We consider it only as a regulation for a decade...
...month ago, Marshal Feng, war lord of Peiping (Peking) and the Northwestern Provinces, was on the verge of war with the Nationalist Government. Four hundred thousand troops were mobilized on either side. Haughty Marshal Feng sent scurrilous letters to President Chiang, and rallied his allies (TIME, June 3). Last week, before actual hostilities commenced, the "Christian General" suddenly capitulated, agreed to leave China...
...sent troops into Shantung because the lives and property of Japanese nationals there were in danger. The emergency is over now and we have the solemn assurance of the present government that our nationals will be given adequate protection." Hotly did Baron Tanaka deny that, as most Chinese Nationalists and foreign correspondents believe, Japan is unfriendly to the Chinese Nationalist Government : "A strong China with a government capable of enforcing its will over the entire area would be a blessing for Japan. . . . For a strong China, freed of the turmoil and the chaos which has plagued it for so many...