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...Communists had finished off Manchuria, prices were skyrocketing, and Dewey had lost the U.S. elections. At 40 to the dollar, the gold yuan had sunk in two weeks to a tenth of its original value. A wave of defeatism swept Nationalist China. Frail Wong Wen-hao, a geologist in private life, tried three times to resign as Premier, finally agreed to hang on until Chiang Kai-shek could find a successor...
...over fish and vegetables and hopelessly asking prices. One squat, broad-faced woman, a tram conductor's wife, finally bought two cracked eggs for her family of five. What if prices went even higher? She answered resignedly, for all of China's badly used plain people: "Chih-hao ch'ihku" (We can only eat bitterness...
...Wong Wen-hao...
...first report on the state of the nation last week, new Premier Wong Wen-hao said little that the Legislative Yuan did not know already. The Chinese Reds held all but a fraction of Manchuria. They were straining the Nationalist lines in North China. Some industry was already moving southward; more might soon have to go. Dr. Wong likened it to the great exodus of 1937-39, when Chinese factories were moved to the interior ahead of the Japs. But he promised: "Even though we are compelled to shift our center to South China ... we shall come back and drive...
Also selected were Nicholaas Bloembergen of Holland, Paul R. Garabedian of Norton, George D. Halsey, Jr. of Washington, D.C., Thomas C. Schelling of Cambridge, and Hao Wang of China...