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Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek decided on Dr. Wong when his first two choices refused. Stocky Chang Chun, the Gimo's sworn brother and old comrade in arms, had been Premier during the military and economic disasters of the past year. Complaining of chronic bronchitis, chronic fatigue and chronic criticism, Chang said he had had enough. When the Gimo appealed to him in the name of their old friendship, asked him to continue as Premier, Chang answered: "Friendship is friendship, and business is business. This is business-and I can't bear it any longer." The following...
Next, the Gimo turned to General Ho Ying-chin, staunch antiCommunist, former war minister and chief of staff. While a Chinese representative at U.N. last year, General Ho had attended a Buchmanite meeting at Niagara Falls.* Friends said that he was a changed man. But, even fortified by moral rearmament, General Ho was not anxious for the headaches of the premiership...
Born in Chekiang, like the Gimo, Wong was educated at Belgium's Louvain University. He speaks fluent English and French, and is passionately devoted to improving China's productivity. By preference, he would leave the military and political problems to others, concentrate on what he calls "proper human organization of resources...
...Last week, after four rancorous ballots, Li won a clean victory. It had not been an amicable contest: at one point Li had withdrawn, charging that his supporters were being intimidated, had ordered a plane to take him to Peiping. But the Kuomintang high command had bethought itself; the Gimo had sent assurances that he stood for open competition. Scholarly Hu Shih, presiding over the Assembly that day, had reminded them: "The secret ballot is sufficient protection...
Said the new Vice President: "Public opinion is like a strong flood of rising water. No wall can hold it back for long." There was also another lesson: the Gimo's China allowed free elections...