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In hardship and tragic travail, Chungking was to modern China what Valley Forge was to revolutionary America. But Valley Forge lasted one winter and Chungking lasted seven years.
Warmly endorsing the Nanking government, the Professor paints an encouraging picture of the reconversion of the Chinese nation to an efficient peacetime basis. Were efficiency the highest criterion of government there would be little reason for Americans to withhold judgment on the Nanking government. It does appear to be the...
Two Newcomers. Not Chou En-lai but two lesser Communists, Wang Ping-nan and Liao" Cheng-chi, publicly made the secession threat. Both came some months ago from Chungking to Nanking, where they have been relatively obscure members of the Communist delegation. Wang is solemn, homely, rather likable. He is...
Faber Castle in Stein, Germany, a great, ugly stone pile, is a house that German lead pencils built. The Fabers still live at Faber Castle, but in a former guesthouse, still manufacture pencils on the grounds, but mostly for the Military Government. Since November the castle has housed the foreign...
As Britain's ambassador to Russia, he used to dictate reports in the Embassy backyard under Moscow's boiling summer sun, stripped to the waist. As ambassador to China, during the heaviest Japanese bombings of Chungking, he imperturbably remained in a patched-up bungalow on the blasted north...