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...Japanese invaders from without. At the same time she had held off the Communists from within. To win against overwhelming Japanese odds, she had retreated from Peiping, from Shanghai, from Nanking, from Canton. To seal off the Communists, she had maintained a blockade against Yenan. Time, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had reasoned, would give his Allies a chance to come to China's aid. So he had traded space for time. But after seven years of unflagging resistance, tired China was running short of space as well as time. At that moment Japan struck again, had cut China...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had been fighting from the days when, as a young officer, he had helped Sun Yat-sen organize China's democratic revolution. He had fought the war lords, he had fought the Communists, he had fought the Japanese. When it was no longer possible to hold against the Japanese, he had organized the retreat. In Chungking he had organized the resistance. By an act of inflexible will, which could brook no opposition because it must remain inflexible, the Generalissimo had held together China's battered, wasting strength. He knew there were abuses-there...
...China's No. 2 job, Acting President of the Executive Yuan, he appointed China's ablest administrator, his brother-in-law, Foreign Minister Tse-veng ("T.V.") Soong. The crisis - military, economic and political - was now at hand. On its outcome rested not only the future of Chiang Kai-shek's Government, but the future of China's 400,000,000 people. The crisis had brought T.V. his biggest, hardest task, for which all others had been the training...
...Christian and returned to China to father one of the world's most distinguished broods of children. T.V. is the brother of the famed Soong sisters, China's three first ladies— Ching-ling (Madame Sun Yat-sen), Ailing (Madame H. H. Kung), Mei-ling (Madame Chiang Kai-shek). Of Soong's three sons, only T. V. has rivaled his sisters in place and prestige...
...Japanese were 310 miles from Chungking (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). In China's darkest hour Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek girded his Government for the trial. He appointed his able, U.S.educated brother-in-law, Foreign Minister T. V. Soong, the Executive Yuan's Acting President. He relieved his brother-in-law and former Finance Minister H. H. Kung, now in the U.S., of the vice presidency. (Another likely appointment: Dr. Wu Ting-chang, banker and Kweichow Governor, as Executive Yuan Secretary...