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...each, and 32 cub-reporting students, Chungking's new Graduate School of Journalism of the Central Political Institute got under way last week. The founder and director is polished, ingratiating, 56-year-old Dr. Hollington Tong, pressagent extraordinary to the Chiang Kai-shek regime and biographer of the Gissimo...
...days after the incident at Marco Polo bridge, the Gissimo spoke: "There is only one thing to do when we reach the limit of endurance: we must throw every ounce of energy into the struggle for our national existence and independence...
...graduated summa cum laude from Harvard. There he had sold newspapers to keep himself in shirts, had tooted a trumpet to keep himself in spirits. More important, he had learned to speak Chinese-and as soon as he reached China he put this knowledge to use working for the Gissimo's government. John Hersey found him in Chungking in 1939, was so impressed by his news sense and his eagerness to get the facts first-hand that he signed him up for TIME...
...liberal, pro-British representative in the Gissimo's cabal is Wang Shih-chieh, 52, lawyer and educator. Wang is Chief of the State Planning Department and President of the People's Political Council. Weekly he and other scholars lunch with the Gissimo, academically review China policy...
Modest Hollington Tong, 56, is Chiang's main official link with the English-speaking world. Officially, he is Vice Minister of Publicity, unofficially the Gissimo's interpreter (Madame sits by and interprets Tong's interpretations). Tong accompanied Madame to the U.S. last November...