Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ying Sung, our Chinese researcher, is a Wellesley graduate who spent five years as Professor of Western Literature at the University of Peking. There she worked with China's foremost scholar, slight, charming Dr. Hu Shih. She came to the U.S. in 1940, broadcast one of Mme. Chiang's speeches to the Nazis in German, headed the Chinese desk at the OWI for thirteen months...
White is only 28 years old but he is the dean of Chungking correspondents-in fact, he has been there almost as long as General Chiang Kaishek. He was there all through the worst of the Jap air raids-was bombed from house to house and from shelter to shelter (during one horrible air raid the mangled body of a Chinese woman was blown 20 yards straight through his open window). But White's news-hunting has also carried him over much of the Far East...
Said practically religious Chiang: "Let the Church identify itself more intimately with the life and needs of the people . . . and build a heaven in society." To that end the conference, taking a brief look back at its achievements in Free China (100 hospitals, eleven universities, etc.), decided to raise the educational requirements for native pastors, also recommended that henceforth missionaries from abroad shall be sent to China only on invitation of the churches there...
...good old days. Beginning with a riotous "Night of Unconditional Surrender," it shows a restored Gay Paree of foamy-petticoated cancan dancers; a restored lustige Wien waltzing to Lehar and Strauss; a melodious potpourri of old Jerome Kern tunes. Last comes a Victory Ball attended by Roosevelt, Churchill, Chiang Kai-shek and Stalin. Making up in jubilation for what it lacks in taste, Rose's version of the Four Freedoms is four galumphing female heavyweights...
...Miss Caroline Cook, an art teacher in a Brooklyn high school, recalled the recent rally in Manhattan for Mme. Chiang Kaishek. "I wish we in America had more of the virtues she possesses, in some of our high officials. You see, we realize that America is not perfect. When I get discouraged at the errors made in high places, I remind myself that 95% of ordinary folks everywhere are kindly, honest, helpful to other human beings. Do you feel that way about...