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...Generalissimo bowed and departed. Outside, it was snowing-an omen, say the Chinese, of Heaven's favor...
...preface to the new 141-page psalter is a letter from Chiang to his great & good friend, Translator Wu, with a photostat of one of the Generalissimo's own editorial emendations brushed on the manuscript's wide margin. Says the letter...
Chen Chi-Mai, who holds a Ph.D. from Columbia, was teaching public law in China at the outbreak of the Japanese War in 1937, when he was asked by the government to head the executive council of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. In 1944, he was appointed Counsellor to the Chinese Embassy in Washington. He attended the Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco conferences as a member of the Chinese delegation, and is now China's representative to UNRRA and to the Emergency Food Committee...
While the Assembly shook with cries of "Bravo!" and "Disrupter!", Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek scribbled an unofficial note to Provisional Chairman Sun Fo. Secretary-General Hung Lan-yu glanced at it, got silence, announced: "The delegate from Kweichow, Chang Tao-fan, voluntarily withdraws as candidate . . . and offers his place to his provincial colleague Yang Ti-chung...
...Start. On the morning of Nov. 15 the delegates crowded into the grey stone Assembly building on Kuo Fu Road. The Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang entered almost unnoticed by a side door. But among the drably clad provincials were some colorful figures: a Tibetan delegate, in bright-hued robes; the towering Catholic prelate, Archbishop Paul Yu-pin; little, rotund Publisher Hu Lin of China's foremost paper, Ta Rung Pao; brisk Premier T. V. Soong; and chubby Dr. Sun Fo, son of the Republic's founder, Sun Yatsen. The Communists were missing...