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...young correspondents handed their visiting cards (bearing the Chinese version of their names: Au Dung and Y Hsiao Wu) to U.S. missionaries and British diplomats, who received them kindly. They interviewed General von Falkenhausen (Chiang Kai-shek's German adviser at that time), histrionic U.S. Red Writer Agnes Smedley (China Fights Back), who thought they might be fascist plotters because they talked with von Falkenhausen. Madame Chiang Kaishek, with whom the poets took tea, was "for all her artificiality a great heroic figure," but the Generalissimo was "bald" and "mild-looking." We laughed as we pictured Chiang, Madame...
...Chinese life as two old men gravely trying to put a rat in a bottle, a woman tirelessly pouring water through a sieve. More startling than anything they report about the East is what they report, often unconsciously, about themselves. Their own honest verdict on Au Dung and Y Hsiao Wu: ". . . though we wear out our shoes walking the slums, though we take notes, though we are genuinely shocked and indignant, [we] belong, unescapably, to the other world. We return, always, to Number One House for lunch...
...large armies fighting Chinese Communists. His victories have been many. His executioners' swords have made thousands of Red heads roll in China's dust. Yet last week the large city of Kweiyang had only just been saved from capture by those doughty Chinese Communists, the Generals Hsiao Keh and Ho Lung. In Moscow it has not been forgotten that Communist gold, Communist military advisers and, above all, Communist propaganda in China greatly aided General Chiang to get his start; that perhaps without them he would never have conquered all China, become a Generalissimo, turned against Communism, put aside...
...conversation with brisk little Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, after which the Chinese satraps of the five provinces figuratively thumbed their noses at General Doihara. When, with boiling anger, the General sputtered in Peiping at a local Chinese commander, hurling threats which would ordinarily have made him grovel, Chinese General Hsiao Chengying said with quiet, studied Oriental insolence that the five provinces had just received the strongest telegraphic orders from Nanking: "So if you want autonomy declared, General Doihara, you must force Nanking to instruct us differently...
...appeared to land two at once. Sung Cheh-yuan, Chinese commandant of the Peiping and Tientsin garrisons, and Yin Ju-keng, commissioner of the demilitarized zone in North China, who obligingly sent out a general telegram demanding autonomy for North China. Doubtful Japanese catches were Chahar's Governor Hsiao Chen-yung and Suiyuan's Governor Fu Tso-yi. The Chinese Government meanwhile appeared to land Shang Chen, Governor of Hopei. It went on angling hopefully for Yen Hsi-shan, Shansi's "Model Governor," and Han Fu-chu: Shantung's greedy Governor...