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...editor (since 1917) of the China Weekly Review, editor of the daily China Press. A onetime instructor of journalism at the University of Missouri, Powell arrived in China during World War I, became a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. He was one of the early backers of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. A bitter enemy of Japanese aggression, Editor Powell steel-plated the doors of his printing plant, organized his own postal service to distribute the Review in Japanese territory, kept it going in spite of Japanese threats and interference...
...demonstration of national solidarity at Chengtu, China, three famed Soong sisters marched side by side through the streets in peasant hats while Chengtu stared in admiration: Mmes. H. H. Kung, wife of China's Finance Minister, Chiang Kaishek, wife of the Generalissimo, Sun Yatsen, widow of the founder of the Chinese republic...
Nearly completed was Nobel Prize-winning Author Pearl Buck's "Book of Hope"-a collection of 1,000 signatures, each representing a donation of $100 or more to the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China. Both book and money will be sent to Mme. Chiang Kaishek...
Peace Coup? Under Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kaishek, China has superabundant morale for resistance, but determination will not ground enemy airplanes or choke rifles. So strong, however, is the determination of the present Chungking Government that even if Japan cuts off most of China's supplies, their capitulation is improbable. What is perhaps more possible, certainly what the Japanese hope for, is some sort of coup within Chungking -some violent episode of treachery like the famous Sian kidnapping of Chiang...
...ardor, his zeal to construct a rejuvenated China. You know, he is quite a drinker, although you wouldn't take him for one. He could take it all right. I think it was in the summer of 1931, when he established a National Government in Canton against Chiang Kaishek, [that] I presented him with a cask of Akita sake (rice wine) from my native province and we drank together one night at his house in Tung-shan [suburb of Canton]. He drank sake, cold, from a big glass and swallowed big mouthfuls, instead of, like us, heating...