Word: kung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alling (literally: "Friendly Life") Soong had married Dr. H. H. Kung, longtime Minister of Finance. In China Mme. Kung was known for her wealth. She was grave, efficient, strongwilled. Ching-ling ("Happy Life") was the idealist, the incarnation of the spirit of her late husband, Sun Yatsen. She was in ways the most beautiful, but she was incredibly shy. Mei-Ling ("Beautiful Life") was certainly the personality of the three. At the end of their Hong Kong reunion, all three went to Chungking and much was made of the United Soong Front...
...center of gravity a foot or two toward the true democrats. But after the session the same group had the same firm grip on the party: Communist-hating War Minister Ho Ying-chin; the Chen brothers, leaders of the notoriously reactionary CC clique; Finance Minister H. H. Kung...
...China's shrewd, rotund Finance Minister H. H. ("Daddy") Kung knows that his ability to control prices in vast, loosely organized China would have been doubtful in any case. The Government has set open market ceilings. In some cities they function fairly well, in others badly, depending on the local administration. In the countryside they have little or no effect. Black markets are everywhere...
...Getter Pawley went to China to see why C.N.A.C. was not coining money. The reasons are not on the record, but he finally sold out to Pan Am again. By that time Bill Pawley had made pals of China's bankers T. V. Soong and Dr. H. H. Kung-not to mention Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Soon he convinced them that China needed its own airplane factory with Bill Pawley to build...
...this was well and bitterly known to Lauchlin Currie when he faced Mme. Chiang Kai-shek and many another Chinese personage last week on Vice President H. H. Kung's lawn in Chungking. President Roosevelt had sent Dr. Currie to Chungking once before, in 1941, when Lend-Lease was a glowing promise. Now he was back, in the sixth and darkest year of China...