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Chungking announced a new exchange rate for foreigners: Chinese dollars, hitherto 20 to one U.S. dollar, hereafter would be 40-to-1.
A group of Tibetan monks, visiting Chungking last week, brought news from Lhasa. They reported that God's spiritual representative on earth, Tanchu, the eight-year-old Dalai Lama, is a holy prodigy. The monks said that four years of intensive training have made him a towering force in...
Of all the world's half-conquered but still-resisting nations, China has fought the longest. Savage Japanese air and land attacks, against soldiers and civilians alike, might well have made the Chinese vengeful. But in Chungking last week, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek spoke reasonably of the Japanese, repeating...
A -well-informed traveler from Chungking brought the following story, suppressed in China, to the U.S. last week.
Chiang Kai-shek sat alone in a room adjoining the Kuomintang auditorium in Chungking. In the hall itself waited 500 Party delegates, government leaders, scholars, celebrities. Before them on the platform stood nine fine bronze tings.* They were inscribed with a classical eulogy, of a type which Chinese tradition reserves...