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China's once potent Governor Han Fu-Chu of Shantung, who recently yielded his capital Tsinan to the Japanese, last week was exhorted to "Hold Tsining at any cost!" To Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (360 miles away at Hankow), who wired this advice, Governor Han wired back: "I could not hold Tsinan, so I do not believe I am able to hold Tsining...
China's new Premier, moonfaced, middle-aged Dr. H. H. Rung, welcomed to bomb-peppered Hankow last week his highly-revered young relative, Duke Kung, the handsome head of the House of Kung, which is revered because it descends from China's greatest sage, Confucius (Kung Fu-tze, died 478 B. C.), of whom Duke Kung is the 76th lineal descendant...
...gunboat Panay settled in the mud of the Yangtze River bottom and its greatest ornaments were naturally Ambassadors Saito of Japan and Chengting T. Wang of China. Mr. Saito and his wife arrived first, narrowly missing an embarrassing meeting with Dr. Wang who with his pretty daughters Yoeh. An-fu. and An-hsiu, followed him up the White House steps. In the receiving line as Secretary of State Hull successively faced those dignitaries, he had the opportunity of seeing the fleshly embodiment of one of the strangest diplomatic situations that ever confronted the U. S. State Department...
...busy last week getting together such Chinese as they could find who were willing to form under Japanese tutelage a "Chinese Government" to replace that cleared out of Nanking (TIME, Nov. 29). There was talk of persuading China's all but forgotten "Scholar War Lord" Marshal Wu Pei-fu to abandon permanently the Buddhist monastery into which he had long ago retired (TIME, April 16, 1928 et seq.), and which reports had him often leaving. A bird actually in Japan's hand was Mr. Wang Keh-min, much heard of in 1935 when he was Acting Chairman...
Unit v. Branch. The A. B. A.'s avoidance of New Deal criticism goes back three years to its convention in Washington when the rank & file were hot for fu mination against liberal finance, but the big banks forced through a policy of passing the peace pipe to President Roosevelt (TIME, Nov. 5, 1934). Next year in convention at New Orleans this same issue boiled over in an action almost unprecedented in A. B. A. history-a hot contest for election of officers. By A. B. A. procedure each year's president is actually selected two years ahead...