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...fu, China's frail and handsome Minister of Education, won a great victory last October. He succeeded in extending his dictatorship over China's thinkers as far as the U.S. In a new set of rules his Ministry declared that a bureau to "guide and control thought and conduct" of private Chinese students studying abroad would be set up in each foreign country. To these thought controllers the students would have to give unconditional obedience and "the moment facts are substantiated and reported to the Ministry that their speech or writing is contrary to the teachings...
Less comforting, however, was the formal statement issued by Ch'en Li-fu to the press: "The Chinese provisional constitution provides that the Three People's Principles shall be the basic educational principles of the Republic of China; just as democracy is the basic principle of America's education and should not be contravened. Any Chinese who violates the Three People's Principles violates common interests in the war of defense, students being no exception...
These were interesting words. No one knew what they meant in practice, but in Chungking and the U.S. alike observers were prepared to apply to Ch'en Li-fu the maxim of his great mentor, Confucius: "Listen to men's words, but watch what they...
Finance Minister H. H. Kung gave a reception. Social Welfare Minister Ku Cheng-kang and Minister of Education Chen Li-fu took part in the conference...
...notoriously reactionary Chen Brothers control the Kuomintang Party. Chen Kuo-fu, 54, Chief of Personnel of the Gissimo's staff, and Chen Li-fu, 53, Minister of Education, who together represent the extreme right wing...