Word: hu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kichisaburo Nomura, Japan's one-eyed Ambassador, busily pumped hands in Sumner Welles's waiting room, pumped a hand that swam into his vision from the blind side. It was the Negro attendant reaching for his hat. Next day China's Dr. Hu Shih, two-eyed but confused, made the same mistake, pumped the same hand in the same room...
Chinese Ambassador Hu Shih : Dickinson, Middlebury, Lake Forest College (Ill.), McGill University (Canada...
Little Brother. Chen Cheng is certainly a favorite. He is the only one of Chiang Kai-shek's generals whom the Generalissimo addresses by the Chinese diminutive, ti, "little brother." He rivals much-talked-of General Hu Tsung-nan, leader of the influential "Whampoa Clique," as candidate to succeed the Generalissimo. He and Hu are the only two generals who are permitted to receive orders direct from the Generalissimo without the countersignature of politically powerful Minister for War Ho Ying-chin...
...question of Party policy; whether the Party should swing left or right-appease the Communists in the Popular Front or cooperate with the Socialists and oust the Communists. As the 600 delegates strolled into the hall one evening there was a sound of swiftly running feet in the Calle Huérfanos. Somebody shouted "Los Nacis!" Shots rang out and three delegates fell...
...always felt that he had seen the pictures somewhere before. But for that matter other places were being bombed, too, so that didn't give him much to go by. Of course he knew that Terry was having a mild sort of love affair with Hu Shee in the Boston Herald before he stumbled onto Burma and that nasty Kiel. Still he couldn't believe that all Chinese girls looked like Hu Shee. Otherwise the Vag might have felt the old wanderlust boiling in his veins. Probably all Chinese girls wore pig-tails, and being very mature, Vag felt above...