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Unfranchised People. China's long history of governmental tyranny and clannish family life is "a handicap" to democratic practice. Neither "the common people" nor "the middle and upper classes" are familiar with "the habits of holding elections. . . . Not one member of a hsien [county] council . . . has been elected to his office by the people of the hsien...
...Hsien Hsiang Ku, of Hongkong, China, S.B. Purdue '40; Donald W. Loiselle, of Concord, N. H., S.B.U. of N. H. '40; Taylor Lyman, of Mt. Vernon, S. Dak., A.B. Stanford '40; Edward J. McBride, S.M. '39, of Chester, Pa.; Henry F. Maling Jr., S.M. '40; of Arlington; Stanley J. Markowski, of Thompsonville, Conn., S.B. Conn., '40; Richard H. Meese, of Santa Rosa, Calif., S.B. Washington...
...Revered Hsien-sheng...
Flying Tactics. In Nanking with grandiose Oriental flourishes arrived Comrade Chin Pang-hsien, former Communist Chairman of the Chinese Soviet Government whose forces are now merged with those of the Chinese Government. "Our valiant Communist forces, now comprising the 8th Route Army of Nanking won two great battles last week in Shansi Province!" announced Chin. "They captured an entire Japanese battalion, including the commander, 60 truckloads of ammunition and one heavy, mounted gun with 2,000 projectiles. The Japanese lines crumbled under the swift, surprising blow ! More than 1,000 Japanese were killed and 10,000 Mongol and Japanese troops...
Last week Nanking's Premier and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek got a telegram from Inner Mongolia that cheered him. It purported to be from one Yun Chih-hsien, who claimed that he was leading a great rebellion against Prince Te. "My men are patriots," Yun trumpeted, "and absolutely opposed to Prince Te's pro-Japanese policy." This might have meant much or nothing, but one thing Premier Chiang read plainly between the lines of the telegram: There would be no Inner Mongol rebellion unless Nanking forked out some cash...