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...unique wastrel against whom the New Life Movement struggled in vain was Chiang Wei-kuo. He is the son of a Japanese waitress & a Chinese official whom Generalissimo Chiang obliged by adopting the lad as his own son. In vain Chiang Wei-kuo was put under the direct control of Mme Chiang. She could do nothing with him. He was sent to Germany, last year suddenly appeared in London and forced the Chinese Delegation to the Coronation of King George VI to get him in on it and on all the best parties...
Despite nonsuccess with Chiang Wei-kuo, the New Life Movement otherwise was successfully enforced. The Generalissimo & Mme Chiang had individuals whom they trusted planted unobtrusively in all branches of the Government. These spies for Puritanism reported direct, and in Nanking not a few errant officials' careers were mysteriously broken...
Kidnapping, Year ago the Generalissimo was suddenly kidnapped and held prisoner at Sian (TIME, Dec. 21, 1936, et seq.). It was The Young Marshal Chang whose troops seized Chiang Kaishek. This kidnapping was promptly hijacked by Chinese forces allied with the Communists. At Nanking an extremely grave suspicion was abroad that Brother-in-Law T. V. Soong, disappointed in an ambition to become Premier of China, had put The Young Marshal, a "cured" ex-dope addict, up to seizing the Generalissimo. What followed proved that Chiang had remade China. It also gave the lie to generations of Chinese history. Instead...
...Welcome, my son!" cried the Generalissimo, then indicating Mei-ling he added "and now you must meet your new mother...
Long Pull. During 1937 the beginning of the Japanese invasion found the Generalissimo then "the only man in China who did not think it best to fight." In his shrewd head Chiang Kai-shek knew better than anyone else that the New China was not yet ready to use her War Machine; that to fight would be to incur the catastrophic losses China has now suffered; that his Government would inevitably be driven from Nanking; that the hand of the Chinese Communists would be immensely strengthened-unless Japan's triumph should indeed be utter & complete. Knowing all this, Chiang...