Word: confucius
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...group of states is prepared to fight, these "pious hopes expressed in general terms" will be useless, and Japan will secure exactly what she desires. In any event, the western powers may console themselves with the thought that Japan has been an apt pupil. Too apt for comfort! CONFUCIUS...
...longest-lived of all China's dynasties. Under Chow emperors Chinese savants were instrumental in discovering the compass. Under them, too, was established the first "league of nations," a League of States to prevent War, in 515 B.C. "How courteous and elegant are all its way" wrote Confucius. "I am for the House of Chow...
Green at his job of Finance Minister is plump, owlish Dr. H. H. Kung. Last week he buckled to the task of trying to balance China's budget with a sternness remindful of his great ancestor, China's uncompromising sage Confucius...
...China, "Pleasant" said: "We Soongs can make much of this man." Though he was a Buddhist with concubines and the Soongs are Christians, she approved when Chiang put aside his concubines and married Youngest Sister Mei-ling ("Beautiful"). Meanwhile "Pleasant" herself had married the 75th lineal descendant of Confucius, Dr. H. H. Kung. Her little Brother Tse-wen ("Scholarly Son") became Finance Minister and was to be known favorably in every chancellery in the world as T. V. Soong. Thus the tentacles of a single family linked China's late, sainted First President and her living Conqueror...
Promptly Chinese bonds tobogganed and alarm grew so general that troops had to be thrown around the home of Generalissimo & Mrs. Chiang and the entire government quarter of Nanking. As Dr. Soong's successor Generalissimo Chiang picked the famed 75th lineal descendant of China's great sage Confucius, plump and placid Dr. H, H. Kung who smokes every day some 15 Havana cigars especially banded "Dr. H. H. Kung...