Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ended Manchu rule in China in 1912. Nearly 20 feet tall on its pedestal, the figure has head, hands and feet of red granite, body of stainless steel, cold-hammered to the shape of a military tunic and mandarin's skirt. Materials were provided by the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) in the U. S. Labor was WPA. The sculptor, who claimed to be the first to use stainless steel as a sculptural medium, was Beniamino Bufano, tough, visionary little Italian whose greatest ambition is to build San Francisco a 180-ft. statue of St. Francis of Assisi (TIME...
...time it became known that the Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese Red Army and the Chinese Soviet were all technically abolished. Communist soldiers replaced the large red stars on their caps with small white stars, became, with no loss of time or commanders, the Eighth Route Army of the Nationalist Government. Nanking in return was pledged to "introduce democracy in China as soon as the war is over," never to sign away any Chinese territory, and to fight Japan...
Ostensibly, peace with China's Communists was made by Nanking last winter, but actually it appeared that only last week's announcement released the Nationalist divisions, who have been opposing the Communists for ten years, to fight Japan. It brings to China's aid about 100,000 of the best trained, best equipped troops in Asia, and with them two of China's ablest generals: bushy-browed Chu Teh and bob-haired Mao Tse-tung. The two of them have had a longtime partnership, General Chu being the military expert, General Mao the shrewd politician...
...have our chance at last to proceed eastward to kill the enemy. We support the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek and will fight hand in hand with all Nationalist armies. We wish to die in battle against the Japanese. We are sure we can recover the lost territory of Manchuria." Before they can do anything of the sort, the Communist armies must move north-east some 350 miles to encounter the Japanese at Tatung in the northern edge of Shensi Province...
John Metcalfe went to New York's Germanic Yorkville in February, made friends, was "persuaded" to join the nationalist Amerikadeutscher Volksbund. Soon he was put in charge of Bund propaganda activities. Back in Chicago fortnight ago Metcalfe exchanged notes with Brother James Metcalfe and Mueller, who had also done extensive prowling among German-Americans. Together with Managing Editor Ruppel they took over the Times's first nine pages to reveal "Secrets of Nazi Army in U. S. A.-by Times men who joined it!" Sample secret: "The regimented tread of marching men under the flaming Nazi swastika resounds...