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Last week Ambassador Clarence Gauss (rhymes with boss) sailed on the President Garfield from San Francisco, bound for Chungking. Like every U.S. Ambassador, like the members of the innumerable U.S. missions in Europe and Asia, his task had narrowed to one main aim: to prevent the Axis encirclement of the...
Yet there were still breaks in the circle. Last week, as bespectacled Dr. Quo Tai-chi (Phi Beta Kappa, University of Pennsylvania '11) arrived in the U.S. from London, where he had been Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, en route to Chungking, where he will...
The precipitous outward flow of missionaries has been reversed. Chiang Kai-shek not only invites all missionaries forced to leave Japanese-held areas to come to the interior, but his Ministry of Finance makes all arrangements to fly them free of charge from Hong Kong to Chungking. Businessmen, officials, visitors...
One American woman evangelist who stayed at her post when the Japanese occupied that region sheltered several hundred Chinese women in the mission compound. The sex-hungry Japanese told her to turn the women over "for protection against bandits." She refused and kept the soldiers out of the compound, even...
As elsewhere in the world, the war has at least brought closer cooperation and a friendlier understanding between China's different Christian groups. On Easter Sunday Chungking Christians celebrated their first interdenominational service at the American Grace Community Church. Catholic Bishop Paul Yu was the preacher. In Canton, Roman...