Word: ch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toward the west the French want to be a center of direct and practical cooperation while they want to be permanent allies in relation to the east-that is to say first in relation to dear and powerful Russia." De Gaulle's loving phrase in French: ". . . la chère et puissante Russie...
Refuge. The Parnikovs, a couple of papier-mâché old guard aristocrats, took her in. They turned against her when she visited their daughter Lilian, a long-nosed, ugly, attractive whore who lived with a killer for the secret police. "He is dreadful," said the old people. "He wears a shamelessly new leather coat, lives in scandalous plenty-she told me they even had meat and wine and sugar, and he shoots people by the dozen. They have no home life...
...Ch'en Li-fu, China's frail and handsome Minister of Education, won a great victory last October. He succeeded in extending his dictatorship over China's thinkers as far as the U.S. In a new set of rules his Ministry declared that a bureau to "guide and control thought and conduct" of private Chinese students studying abroad would be set up in each foreign country. To these thought controllers the students would have to give unconditional obedience and "the moment facts are substantiated and reported to the Ministry that their speech or writing is contrary...
Less comforting, however, was the formal statement issued by Ch'en Li-fu to the press: "The Chinese provisional constitution provides that the Three People's Principles shall be the basic educational principles of the Republic of China; just as democracy is the basic principle of America's education and should not be contravened. Any Chinese who violates the Three People's Principles violates common interests in the war of defense, students being no exception...
These were interesting words. No one knew what they meant in practice, but in Chungking and the U.S. alike observers were prepared to apply to Ch'en Li-fu the maxim of his great mentor, Confucius: "Listen to men's words, but watch what they...