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...Ting Hao...
...Ting hao! Correspondent Gray has done it-at last [TIME, June 10]. We who lived in the backwoods of China (Kunming) during the war were well aware of the situation. The corruption of Kuomintang officials was evident throughout the war years, when Americans at home were waxing sentimental over the gallant Chinese. . . . The bouquets have always belonged to the paddy farmer, the coolie, and the ordinary little soldier whose courage, in the face of the decadent regime under which they were forced to live and fight, was the truly fine thing about the China we knew...
...book is much more than a catalogue of sights & sounds, or a stylistic appreciation of scenery. There are also a dirgelike visit to Changsha battle field; illuminating talks with Dr. Sun Fo, "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang, WPBoss Wong Wen-hao; ferryboat rides across the dragonlike Yangtze; discourses on the world and its state; days with abbots, poets, children and cymbal-beating actors. Above all, Payne admires and respects China's students and professors, the guardians of the past and the planners of the future, whose great hegira from the coast to the interior never fails to fill...
...Hao Hao!" At the temporary capital in Chungking the Generalissimo whirled through a week of high statesmanship. In a brief ceremony at the National Government building, he signed the United Nations Charter. When he put down his brush, he made his characteristic short, quick bow, murmured: "Hao hao, hao hao-very good, very good!" He looked deeply satisfied...
Every U.S. soldier was mobbed by Chinese, by more hands than any G.I. could shake, more gifts of.cigarets than he could smoke, by boundless gratitude in cries of "To hsieh, to hsieh-Thank you, thank you very much!" and "Mei-kuo ting hao -America is swell!" One celebrant was asked: "Where will you be in a month?" He answered for China: "Not Chungking, not much. Nanking! Nanking! Nanking...