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In as new War Minister came austere, youthful (44) General Chen Cheng, one of China's ablest and most honest soldiers (TiME, June 16, 1941). It was General Chen who last year turned back an incipient Japanese drive on Chungking. It was he who helped organize the successful Chinese...
In as new Finance Minister went suave, competent 0. K. Yui, 48, banker, ex-mayor of Shanghai and formerly Chungking's Vice Minister of Finance. Minister O. K. Yui's real name is Yü Hung-chün. He adopted the O.K. as a tribute to American...
Only visionaries or political infants supposed that Generalissimo Chiang's reorganization of his Government would instantly change the course of the war, now going heavily against the Chinese, or would immediately remove all the causes of the criticism which has been leveled at Chungking and Chiang. But Chiang had...
Wang suffered another crisis after Japan began the "China incident" (1937). First an ardent advocate of Chinese resistance, he later changed his mind, plumped for a "peaceful settlement" with Japan. One day, while still chairman of the central political council and second in command to Chiang Kaishek, he slipped away...
In Chungking, where the fantastic inflation has caused businessmen to fear the financial worst, best guesses on the cause of the drop were: 1) military defeats, 2) diplomatic differences between the U.S. and China. But businessmen gloomily predicted that the end is not yet in sight. An ounce of gold...