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Typical is Hua Chung College. Japanese air raids drove it from its campus at Wuchang. Japanese planes later bombed it out of Kweilin. Salvaging what equipment they could, Hua Chung's students and faculty trekked over 800 miles west to remote Yunnan Province...
...after his birthplace in western China*), who seemed indubitably to be the 14th incarnation of the Buddha of Mercy. His coronation as Dalai Lama was scheduled for this week. To make sure that the enthronement takes place, the Chinese Government appropriated. $30,000, sent a special emissary, General Wu Chung-hsin, to this land where nothing can be done without bribery. Last fortnight General Wu visited Tibet's three greatest monasteries, whose abbots supervise the selection of a Dalai Lama, and distributed "alms," tea and rancid yak butter (Tibetan delicacy as well as lamp fuel) to 17,000 Lamas...
...other hand," said Chung Kiang Chu. "We can't allow ourselves to be sad, because even though I feel very sad, I might even say mighty sad, at the present time, and what is time, after all?" asked Chung Kiang Blooie...
...more Chinese names which look almost as interchangeable as rifle parts (see col. 1) and both of which were in the news last week are Wang Ching-wei and Wang Chung-hui. Their owners would make as ill-fitting an interchange as the triggers of a crossbow and a Mauser. Wang Chung-hui is a patriot, Wang Ching-wei a traitor. Patriot Wang is naive, legalistic, bureaucratic, in office (Foreign Minister). Traitor Wang is sophisticated, old-style, political, out of office (onetime Premier, waiting to become Japan's super-puppet...
...bayonet peace, not a peace of pillage and plunder, not a Japanese peace. The only peace China would accept would be one based on treaties-especially the Nine-Power treaty (signed in 1922 by the U. S., Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Portugal, Japan, China-Wang Chung-hui himself was a negotiator and signer-guaranteeing China's territorial integrity). Japan, said Foreign Minister Wang, is surrounded by jealous nations who frown on her flagrant violation of the treaty; the U. S., having given evidences of displeasure, might mediate a peace restoring the treaty-i.e., throwing Japan...