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...patriotic ardor, his zeal to construct a rejuvenated China. You know, he is quite a drinker, although you wouldn't take him for one. He could take it all right. I think it was in the summer of 1931, when he established a National Government in Canton against Chiang Kaishek, [that] I presented him with a cask of Akita sake (rice wine) from my native province and we drank together one night at his house in Tung-shan [suburb of Canton]. He drank sake, cold, from a big glass and swallowed big mouthfuls, instead of, like us, heating...
First victims of Japan's invasion in the summer of 1937 were China's universities. Concentrated along the coast, in Peking, Tientsin, Shanghai, Nanking, Hong Kong, Canton, they were at once Japan's most dangerous foes and easiest targets. Japanese bombs completely destroyed Nankai University in Tientsin; not a book or piece of equipment was saved. Japanese soldiers looted National Peking University, sold its furniture for cigaret money. At Tsing Hua University, in Peking, Japanese smashed laboratories to bits, converted the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Gymnasium into a stable, the John Hay Memorial Library into a hospital...
...laboratory equipment and machines from their shops, set out up the Yangtze. They arrived at Chungking, 1,000 miles away, after 43 days. (Their agricultural school's herd of blooded cattle, driven along the river banks, got there a year later.) More spectacular still was the migration of Canton's Sun Yat-sen University. Poling their sampans out of Canton just as Japanese entered it, Sun Yat-sen's students pushed ahead by night, hid in the rushes of West River by day. (Biggest migration was not to a university but to a Communist school at Yenan...
...doing business next door (in Indiana), was comfortably earning nearly twice as much as its preferred dividends, was investing spare cash in bankers' acceptances. Remarkable is this liquidity and solvency for a system dependent in good part on such feast-&-famine businesses as Timken Roller Bearing (at Canton, Ohio), American Rolling Mill (at Ashland, Ky.), International Nickel (at Huntington, W. Va.), then very much depressed...
...There; assorted whistlers, fiddlers, ladybug plunkers whanged away at heart strings beyond the walls. But the tune that dampened the eyes of Warden Herbert ("Cap") Smith and beefy Deputy Tom Meikrantz was a Chinese prisoner's song, written and sung in quavery, North China dialect by Canton-born William Yun. (Yun was jailed six weeks ago for working the badger game on a wealthy countryman named...