Word: changefulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lincolnesque phrase "of the people, by the people, for the people," kept only Sun Yat-sen's credo of government on the basis of "Three People's Principles." Screamed the middle groups: "Since only one party is enacting the constitution, who will hold the Assembly?" Carson Chang, boss of the Democratic Socialists, wired from Shanghai instructions that his delegation must not yield to the Kuomintang diehards on Articles...
...Shanghai's Methodist mission school in 1918. At first he was devout, but, says he: "Gradually my religious zeal ebbed because of conflict within the Methodist Church between fundamentalists and modernists. I myself couldn't make up my mind. . . ." But when the Generalissimo was delivered from Kidnaper Chang Hsueh-liang in 1936, Convert Wu considered it a "miracle," began to study religion once again. "I discovered that, for myself, fundamentalism wasn't fundamental enough, modernism wasn't modern enough. In 1937 I was admitted into the Catholic Church...
While the Assembly shook with cries of "Bravo!" and "Disrupter!", Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek scribbled an unofficial note to Provisional Chairman Sun Fo. Secretary-General Hung Lan-yu glanced at it, got silence, announced: "The delegate from Kweichow, Chang Tao-fan, voluntarily withdraws as candidate . . . and offers his place to his provincial colleague Yang Ti-chung...
...Hsin Mm Pao reporter unkindly noted that Chang Tao-fan looked up attentively as he heard the news of his voluntary gesture for democracy. The Assembly applauded the solution. The Gissimo beamed. On the parliamentary bookshelf, Robert moved over for Chiang...
...Chang Chun. Virtually unknown outside of the country (he has just returned from his first visit to America), Governor Chang Chun of rugged Szechwan Province (best known city: Chungking) is China's closest approach to a universally popular political figure. A stocky 58-year-old who looks like an American Indian and who loves bright neckties and ice cream, Chang heads the "Political Science Group," which wants a modernized, industrialized China on a broad, democratic base. Chang has been a Kuomintang executive since 1928, is no left-winger but is equally opposed to the Confucian conservatism of Chen...