Word: hued
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hongkong Hu. General Doihara, in his role of the Japanese Army's diplomatic Shanghai Lily, matched wits last week with Hongkong Hu. It is Mr. Hu Han-min's distinction that he was the late, sainted Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Chief Secretary and that today his influence in Canton is worth a $200,000 bribe proffered him last year by the Chinese Government (TIME, July 23). It would be cheaper to jail or exterminate Mr. Hu, but he is careful to live in British Hongkong, with strapping Sikh police posted day and night before his strongly...
...Hu Shih, of Pekin, one of the leading philosophers and men of letters in China today, said that the Harvard scroll is one of the few fragments of a Dharani Sutra, printed in 975 and deposited in the cavities made in the bricks that were used to build the Red Pagoda. When the Pagoda fall to ruin in 1924 a few copies were found still in fairly good condition despite nearly ten centuries of burial. The fragment is about three feet long, and two feet wide, or approximately one-half its original length...
Thus entrenched and resolved to sell himself dearly has lived for the past two and a half years Hu Han-min, sometimes called "China's Trotsky." The late, sainted Dr. Sun Yatsen, idolized "Father of the Chinese Revolution," relied for more than a decade upon Hu Han-min as his Chief Secretary and later made him acting Cantonese Generalissimo. To this day South China respects no living Chinese more than Hu Han-min. He has shrewdly traded on the yearning of all Chinese to get back at Japan by hurling repeated rebukes at Generalissimo Chiang for "his spineless failure...
...long as Mr. Hu continued to fulminate, safe behind his Hongkong gratings, the Nanking Government of Generalissimo Chiang, potent chiefly in Central China, despaired of re-establishing its authority in the South. Last week the great haggle ended in a joyous announcement by Nanking Government officials. They had paid Mr. Hu some $200,000, they said, and he has agreed to leave China under pretext of "a detailed inspection tour of European and other countries...
...Taking this at face value and banking heavily on having bought Mr. Hu, Nanking officials claimed that prospects for a united China are now brighter than at any time since the northern part of the nation was spectacularly reconquered by Generalissimo Chiang...