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...hurried to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. The Ministry of Finance was ordered to conduct an immediate inquiry. "We decided on this measure," said T.V.. "because, at the slightest suspicion of corruption in the Government, immediate and thorough investigation and punishment should follow. This could only result in strengthening . . . the authority of the Government . . . enhance the confidence of the people...
There is still no Allied unanimity on what to do with the Emperor. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government has made no bones about its wishes. It wants to dispose of Hirohito as Asia's War Criminal No.1. Acting Premier T. V. Soong has publicly hoped for the Emperor's destruction by U.S. bombers-"that would make one less embarrassing question to deal with later." Last week the Chungking press called for Hirohito's trial, execution and the public display of his body "on Sun Yat-sen Road near Nanking...
...stream of patients keeps Dr. Chang busy in his office from noon until nearly midnight. After that he visits his private patients. What amazes Westerners in Chungking is not the number of his patients but their prominence: he attends such august personages as the Generalissimo and Madame Chiang, Cabinet Ministers T. V. Soong, H. H. Kung, Chen Cheng and police head...
...Chungking. Dawn poked through the chill Yangtze mist. Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, ever an early riser, was at breakfast when an aide brought him the news. He left his food untasted, withdrew for meditation. Hours later he sent his thoughts to Mrs. Roosevelt: "I am deeply grieved. . . . The profound sorrow of the Chinese people . . . the deep sense of gratitude they bear for him. . . . His name will be a beacon of light to humanity...
Toward Stability. Last week, too, a new attack opened on China's desperate economic front. One evening a silvery Douglas transport came down at a Chungking airfield. Out stepped its chief passenger, the Generalissimo, and a bulky hitchhiker, onetime OPA Boss Leon Henderson. The American, en route from Europe, had met the Generalissimo by chance in Kunming. But he was no chance visitor. The Generalissimo had asked him to study China's agonizing inflation...