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Most significant of all Mr. Sheean's descriptions and comments are those on the Kuomintang, and the attempted Communist Revolutions in China between 1927 and 1930. The figure of Borodin looms large as the greatest man, to Sheean's mind, in the whole decade, Lenin excepted. Then there are Mme. Sun-Yat-Sen, widow of the Chinese hero, Eugene Chen, and the fiery, red-haired Rayna Prohme, all of whom Sheean knew with varying degrees of intimacy. Their failure to put through the revolution Sheean ascribes to the strength of foreign imperialism, British and American in particular...
...towards Shanghai from the South, he had a hard time persuading his bosses that "personal adventure" awaited in the Far East. Eventually, however, he managed to turn the trick, got a drawing account, set out to interview Sun Yat-sen's widow, the delicate Soong Ching-ling; Borodin, the Russian adviser to the Kuomintang; Eugene Chen, who had been Sun Yat-sen's secretary, and other figures in the Chinese Revolution. These figures are pictured vividly in Personal History...
...after Chiang Kai-shek had split with the Communist-dominated wing of the Kuomintang and made peace with the Western powers. Two governments existed in China after that-the Nationalist of Nanking, dedicated to making China a Middle-Class country, and the so-called Communist government at Hankow, where Borodin and Madame Sun Yat-sen stood in the wings, hoping to "proclaim the Soviet," but never getting a chance. Sheean saw Borodin daily, was impressed by the man's philosophy, the "long view" of the theoretical Marxist who regarded immediate events as meaningless unless related to other events...
Contact with the "ideas" behind the Chinese Revolution made Sheean into a sort of Bruce Lockhart, both onlooker and participant. Unable, in spite of Borodin and Rayna, to make up his mind about Communism, Sheean wavered. But he began to take a hand in the processes of history, attempted to bring T. V. Soong, brother of Madame Sun Yatsen, from Shanghai to Hankow, offered to smuggle Fanny Borodin out of Peking. No longer the impassive newshawk, Sheean, when he covered the Jewish-Arab conflict in the Holy Land, broke down completely, took sides violently, and learned conclusively that...
...Gown--Brattle Street on the one hand, balanced by delegations, of the music-hungry from Harvard and Radcliffe--crowd the Elizabethan stalls and galleries in the dim light of the ancient gas chandelier. Three major works are listed for performance: Weber's brightly pointed overture to his opera "Oberon"; Borodin's Second Symphony; and the mighty D Minor Symphony of Cosar Franck which was played last week at the opening pair of concerts in Symphony Hall...