Word: changefulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past decade China's most celebrated political prisoner has been Chang Hsueh-liang, better known as the "Young Marshal." Son of fabulous "Old Marshal" Chang Tso-lin, who drank tiger blood and warlorded it over Manchuria until his assassination in 1928, the Young Marshal kidnaped Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in the fantastic Sian incident of 1936. Eventually he freed the Gissimo and surrendered himself, crying: "I, Hsueh-liang, am by nature rude and uncouth. . . . Blushing with shame, I receive from you . . . the punishment I deserve...
...Young Marshal's punishment was cushioned captivity. It was known vaguely that he was somewhere in a closely guarded countryside villa. Recently Chinese political circles buzzed with rumors that the Generalissimo would send the Young Marshal to Manchuria to counteract the influence of his brother, Chang Hsueh-shih. The Communists have installed Chang Hsueh-shih as governor of strategic Liaoning province, and some Chinese think he is a potential Red candidate for boss of all Manchuria. Last week the rumors boiled down to the fact that the Generalissimo had sent a go-between to call on the Young Marshal...
...young Dr. Edward Hume, of Yale and Johns Hopkins, had been sent to Hunan Province to do just that. He opened his dispensary on one of Chang-sha's main streets in November 1906. It was not much of a place to look at-four whitewashed rooms in what had been an old inn. The original staff consisted merely of a gatekeeper, a janitor and the doctor. They hung out a black-and-gold lacquered sign reading Yali I Yuan (Yale Court of Medicine), and patients began to drift in. Yali I Yuan was the first Yale-in-China...
Tickets for Life. CNRRA gets food to hungry people in two ways: 1) through porridge lines thrice daily, and in "soft rice" (flour and vegetable paste) kitchens set up in old temples or deserted buildings; 2) as pay for work on highway-building projects. The Pao Chang (district political bosses) give out tickets for porridge lines "on the basis of greatest need." Women and children by the score, without the magic tickets, stand outside the kitchens and beg in vain...
Invitation to Leave. At 5 p.m. that day Mayor Yung gave a banquet for Russians and Chinese. Many toasts were drunk; but a ghost sat at the groaning board. The Russians complained that the Chinese made many "transparent allusions" to the murder of Chinese Engineer Chang Hsin-fu, killed near Fushun last January. The Chinese believe the Russians were responsible. The Russians believe that Chinese Communists were guilty. Reported Chneider: "The Chinese kept telling us that they would guarantee our safety to Mukden, and then the Chinese would remind us that the Red Army gave the same pledge to their...