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On the other side of the world, another man had reason to ponder the U. S. role in world affairs: H. H. Kung of Chungking, Finance Minister of the Chinese Government. The U. S. had recently lent China $100,000,000, half of which was to bolster its skidding currency...
> Dispatched his Administrative Assistant Lauchlin Currie to Chungking, to help General Chiang Kai-shek bolster up Chinese currency.
This put new emphasis on the roundabout northern way-into Vladivostok, by rail to Chita or Verkhne Udinsk, thence by mechanical and animal caravan down the Mongolian desert to China, 3,700 miles in all from Vladivostok to Chungking. Links in the route were not exactly new; their origins as...
"Chinese Christians," thinks Mr. Barnett, "can teach Americans a lot." A symbol of their spirit is the paperweight on his Manhattan desk - a fragment of the bomb with which a Japanese plane com pletely destroyed the big Y auditorium at Chungking two days before he got there last June. Though...
Mr. Chou's job was not to be envied. His currency had almost no gold, little silver, no foreign exchange behind it. Chungking currency, with which he will have to compete, is specifically backed by half of the recent $100,000,000 loan from the U. S. Government. One...