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CHIANG KAI-SHEK (382 pp.)-Emily Hahn-Doubleday...
Author Emily Hahn, whose youthful passion for Manila cigars, free love and self-advertisement caused arching eyebrows from Shanghai to Chungking in the 19305, has now maturely channeled her fierce independence to good cause. With the informal, sometimes gabby style of her China Coast pieces in The New Yorker, and of her bestsellers (China to Me, The Soong Sisters), she has written the first popular biography to examine Chiang in the only way he can be understood: as a singularly great man, a lonely combination of Confucian self-discipline and Methodist virtue, forced to fight at once against centuries...
Stalin Outguessed. Without belaboring the point, Author Hahn lets the facts prove that Chiang was awesomely right in recognizing the Communists as the greatest threat of all. After a trip to Moscow in 1923 he wrote: ". . . Some of our Chinese Communists who are in Russia always scold other people as slaves of America, of England and of Japan, never realizing that they themselves have already completely become slaves of Russia...
...scientist expected to be able to arrange thermonuclear reactions similar to those they studied in the stars; the required heat seemed unattainable. In 1938 Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner discovered nuclear fission, and their discovery led directly to the Abomb. And fission, with its intense release of energy, also suggested that conditions could be created under which thermonuclear reactions might occur. The late Enrico Fermi in 1942 suggested to Teller that fission could be used to start thermonuclear reaction in deuterium (heavy hydrogen). "After a few weeks of hard thought," Teller recalls, "I decided that deuterium could not be ignited...
...speeches with more picturesque and fanciful incidents. I fell into a trap, which in part had been laid by my own glib tongue." The facts, he said, were these: "I was never an OSS agent. I never participated in any secret, behind-the-lines mission ... I never captured Otto Hahn or any other German physicist ... I wish before my Heavenly Father that I might undo this wrong." Stringfellow offered to withdraw from the election if the party asked...