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...Donald." This was not to say that Kidnappee Chiang, Kidnapper Chang, Financier Soong and Acting-Premier Kung were engaged in emulating the example set fortnight ago by the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin when he eased King Edward from the Throne while loudly protesting that what he had done was to try to keep His Majesty on (see p. 16). In Britain it is the simple solution which is always sought and usually found. In China nothing so takes the bloom off a proposed solution, nothing makes a Chinese statesman so unwilling to bite on it, as simplicity. There could...
...Sunday and on Monday morning, the kidnapped Dictator persisted in a stratagem characteristically Chinese: he maintained his lips closed and his expression unchanged. Anyone who has ever cured a dope fiend will realize how trying this conduct by the kidnappee was last week to the kidnapper in question. Young Chang fairly howled with anguish at his inability to get Dictator Chiang to enter into the sort of negotiation which any orthodox kidnappee is usually eager to undertake with an orthodox kidnapper...
...Dictator Chiang but the facts are that his career has been as adviser to the Young Marshal, plus merely friendly relations with T. V. Soong who is the Dictator's brother-in-law, up to three years ago. He then attached himself to Chiang, while continuing to advise Chang. It was possible that at Sian wise Uncle Donald was trying to be as impartial and simply pro-Chinese as he knew how-but there are limits...
...Monday afternoon, fortunately, the Dictator who had been risking his life by his refusal to speak with desperate men, spoke-nay, he conversed. This conversation, like that of Mr. Baldwin and King Edward, was not so much about the tremendous issues at stake as about money. Of course Young Chang did not threaten to kill Dictator Chiang unless he was paid a given sum. That would have been nonsense. The position of each of these two Chinese was of such eminence and power that a few million dollars more or less was not to them what...
...Chiang apparently was of the opinion that Dr. Kung, in trying to race the Communists to Sian with his Government troops, was likely to upset Kidnapper Chang so much that he would murder her husband instead of joining up with the Dictator in a deal to fight Japan. It was rather tactless for Dr. Kung to say of her husband in an official broadcast by the Acting Premier last week, "While we are all anxious that Generalissimo Chiang may be rescued . . . our attitude is that the personal safety of one man should not be allowed to interfere. . . . It gives...