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...Tientsin by dainty Japanese geishas who pattered about bowing and serving them ice water, tea and pink lemonade without so much as a jeer from the abject Chinese populace. Finally it was most peculiar that in Nanking withered Chinese President Lin Sen and sleek Chinese Premier Wang Ching-wei should give a bounteous banquet at which their chosen Guest of Honor was the onetime Japanese Minister Akira Ariyoshi, newly elevated to the dignity of Japanese Ambassador to the Chinese Government...
...When I arrived in the Southwest," said General Doihara, "I found a strong disposition on the part of Chinese leaders there to make hostile political capital out of the friendly statements on Chino-Japanese relations made recently by the Chinese Premier Wang Ching-wei and General Chiang Kaishek. In friendly personal conversations I convinced these Chinese leaders that it would be a tragic blunder, harmful alike to the Chinese and Japanese peoples, to make a football for domestic Chinese politics out of the growing rapprochement between our two great nations. Eventually I discovered that the Southwest leaders are as keenly...
...Government reports "almost exterminated" every few months, were again giving Generalissimo Chiang so much trouble that he placed himself at the head of forces rushing to avenge the murder of an Australian missionary. Left in command at Nanking was the versatile and brilliant Premier of China, Mr. Wang Ching-wei. Today he is carrying the awful onus of secret negotiations with Japan, fateful to China's whole future-the future of the most populous nation in the world...
...sweeping up towards Shanghai from the South, he had a hard time persuading his bosses that "personal adventure" awaited in the Far East. Eventually, however, he managed to turn the trick, got a drawing account, set out to interview Sun Yat-sen's widow, the delicate Soong Ching-ling; Borodin, the Russian adviser to the Kuomintang; Eugene Chen, who had been Sun Yat-sen's secretary, and other figures in the Chinese Revolution. These figures are pictured vividly in Personal History...
...route to the conference last week owl-eyed Premier Wang Ching-Wei set an example of close-lipped secrecy which was followed by all except Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung, stogie-smoking Christian descendant of Confucius. He felt obliged to comment on President Roosevelt's nationalization of silver as he stepped aboard an airplane at Shanghai. Said Dr. Kung: "We also would like to nationalize silver but for China this is impossible because our Government is hampered by extraterritorial treaties. We do not want the price to skyrocket, for silver is vital to our national life...