Word: gayne
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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Window on a Nightmare. From 1937 to 1941, Editor Gayn's window in Shang hai's International Settlement looked out on some of the most terrible nightmares of the contemporary world - the Japanese attacks. "In the months and years which followed the rape of Nanking, ten million Chinese had been killed, fifty million driven west, more than a hundred put in subjection under puppet regimes. . . . For endless miles [Shanghai's] sidewalks be came the bedroom of a million refugees." A "baby patrol" went the rounds each morning, piling up mounds of dead children "like stacks of firewood...
Pious Paradox. Author Gayn devotes most of the latter part of Journey from the East to the new China and its new leaders. He believes that Chiang is the only man under whom China can achieve unity...
Until 1926, Chiang, was a revolutionary. Thereafter he fought the Communists as vigorously as he fought the Japs. A pious advocate of Confucian virtues, Warlord Chiang was also responsible, Gayn claims, for ten years of military bloodshed. Today, Author Gayn believes, Chiang is at once "a ruthless and intolerant man ... a pious Christian ... a canny politician ... a national unifier of the caliber of Bismarck and a petty and jealous political boss . . . consumed by a passion for power...
Chiang's supreme test, says Author Gayn, will come when Japan is defeated and stripped of her empire - an undertaking that may not be concluded until 1948 or 1949. Then Chiang will rule "New China" - a nation that confidently sees herself as the future "mistress of Asia." But neither Japan's defeat nor a vast in crement of territory will solve China's domestic problems. Four out of five Chi nese depend upon the soil they till. Of China's 360,000,000 farmers, 200,000,000 do not own the land they cultivate; only...
Wealthy absentee landlords - often in ca hoots with local warlords and bandits -have reduced China's millions to a primitive struggle for a daily bowl of rice. The measure of Chiang's greatness, says Gayn, of his rise in stature from warlord to national leader, will be his readiness to take up the struggle against his old confreres - the political bosses and the land lords. "If [he] succeeds he will truly be come one of the world's great figures...