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THURSDAY, DEC. 9,

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Chiang to Rule 20 Years Ago

China's Enigmatic Master Faces Greatest ‘Danger as Communists Close In On Corntol :

By NEA Service Communism helped’ Chiang Kai-shek become the master of time to stay.in power against the

‘China 20 years ago.

Since then; he has been one of communism’s most persistent

enemies.

together against a third,

the northern hills. Ten years later, the Communists again helped Chiang, this

threats of civil war,

son in Manchuria imprisoned the

Be regarded the Japanese as “a terrible skin ‘disease, but communism generalissimo because he refused

. a& cancer.” “Today communism is

perts agree, can save him from defeat—or from being tossed out by his own Nationalist government... Chiang’s military career began at-19 with a scholarship to the National Military Academy, with which the decayifig Manchu dy-| ‘nasty was trying to build a modern western-style army. After a year, he was sent to Japan's war college, where he met revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen. When he returned to China in 1911, Chiang tasted the leisurely life of the old-line Chinese officer, and played the stock market for winnings variously estimated anywhere from $1 million up to $8 million, These profits he gave to Dr. Sun’s Republican cause against the Manchus. He had already married (his two sons by his first wife are Na tionalist Army officers),, and in

“heavily, He met Mei-ling Soong in 1923, when Dr. Sun was married to one of her two sister. For four years, Chiang courted .Mei-ling, Welles-ley-educated ‘and daughter of

ganizer, Bome historians ‘claim that Soviet observers Michael Borodin

work with President. Sun Yatsen while they organized the Communists, regarded Chiang as a future Chinese Red leader and built him up in the eyes of Sun. "Borodin and Bluecher fit ito both pictures, for they were Chiang’s tutors when he went to Moscow in 1923, When he returned, at 36, to organize the Whampoa Military Academy at Canton, Borodin and. Bluecher returned with him; Russian instructors . helped teach Chiang’s cadets. Chiang had learned from the Russians, too. In two years, when Dr. Sun died, he became military head of the revolutionary army and embarked with Borodin and Bluecher on the famous Northern Punitive Expedition, which gave Chiang’s Nationalists control of half of China. What he had learned was more than the tactics of revolution: He distrusted Communist. methods, and soon dumped Borodin and Bluecher. By 1927 China's

as 3 military strategist and or. "13

and Gen. Bluecher, in China to

to let them fight the invading “the Chinese

apaneseRed guerrilla forces. In the two weeks he was held captive, Chiang refused to give in. He demanded that he be returned to Nanking—or' shot, Marshal Chang finally invited the advice of the Chinese Communists he was supposed to be fighting.

structions from Moscow— returned

¢ -jCommunists- were scattered to} i.

That was when Marshal Chiang

In the long war with Japan, when the Reds and the Hsueh-liang’s Nationalist garri-| | Nationalists were two enemies lined up

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wealthy “Old Charlie” Soong, in open defiance of Chinese tradition “that calls for an intermedlary in such affairs. ’ Scuttles First Wife Dr. Sun favored the courtship, and they were married two years after Dr. Sun's death. Chiang’s first wife went ‘back to her. village on a pension. The marriage gave Chiang tremendous political. and financial advantages. Mei-ling’s other sister was already the wife of the powerfully rich banker, Dr. H. H. Kung. All three Soong sisters, and their brother, T. V. were educated in America, and Chiang thus gained a valuable tie with

while he was still virtually an unknown to the little people of China. And he has always been a

world enigma, particularly to

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