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...diplomats of any nation have been more popular in the U.S. than slight, charming Hu Shih, China's foremost living scholar, China's Ambassador to the U.S. since 1938. Last week Chiang Kai-shek recalled Ambassador Hu, replaced him with Dr. Wei Tao-ming. The Gissimo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Philosopher Departs | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

True, 51-year-old Dr. Hu had a scholarly disinclination for propagandistic finagling, and everyone knew that U.S. Lend-Lease aid to China was monumentally short of what China could use. But many U.S. citizens agreed that Dr. Hu had more than made good his remark in returning $60,000 for propaganda to his Government: "My speeches are sufficient propaganda and do not cost you anything." Warm, wise, statesmanly Dr. Hu was, in fact and in his own person, just about the most persuasive argument for China imaginable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Philosopher Departs | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...General Pai Tsung-hsi, to look over that vital area on the Kwantung army's flank. Perhaps, as some Chinese think, Itagaki may time an attack to protect his flank and close the long-unclosed "China Incident." Else General Pai and China's northern armies under General Hu Tsung-nan may be stout aids to General Stern in Siberia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF ASIA: Man With a Plan | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

...year's past been accustomed to send to the crew at Red Top an enlarged, unexpurgated, water-color version of one of his current heroines. Pinned on the wall of the central hall at the New London training quarters are such sultry females as the Dragon Lady, Hu Shee, Burma, Normandie, and April Kane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Terry's Girls Won't Inspire Crew for Regatta This Year | 5/21/1942 | See Source »

...A.V.G. knocked down more than 200 Jap planes, lost only 16 pilots. Even some of those 16 the Jap could not claim. They were lost in forced landings and in the occasional wild flying that is inseparable from the air work of a high-spirited outfit like the Fei Hu (Flying Tiger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Tigers' Last Leaps | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

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