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China is typified in a resolute old farmer named Ling Tan (Walter Huston). When war comes to Ling Tan's village, he does not choose to run. He meets the Japanese peaceably and with dignity-only to learn that dignity is no longer a human value. His son-in-law's fat old mother, his second son's wife, are raped and murdered. His three sons, and the wife (Katharine Hepburn) of one of them, join the refugees who, carrying parts of a dismantled factory on their backs, stream toward mountains a thousand miles distant...
...Later Ling's children return, experienced guerrilla fighters. They teach the humane old man to kill. He becomes the leader of the underground, is betrayed to his soft merchant son-in-law (Akim Tamiroff), a collaborationist. Katharine Hepburn causes the death of the traitor and succeeds, in an inadvertently funny banquet scene, in poisoning most of the local Japanese command. At length Ling Tan learns his hardest lesson: for all his reverence for his soil and home, he must destroy both, since they are useful only to the enemy...
...despite his studio pajamas and poetic prose, Walter Huston as Ling Tan nobly creates a character in whom the greatness of a whole people sometimes touches sublimity...
Wellesley College's most famed alumna went back last weekend. Mei-ling Soong. honor student, class of '17, went to see how the campus had changed since her last May Day hoop rolling and June step singing. For Madame Chiang Kaishek, the woman Mei-ling Soong had become, the Wellesley visit was a brief recess in her U.S. tour...
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek came to Cambridge from Wellesley yesterday, but she came only on a private visit to her nephew, Ling Kai K'ung who is a graduate student in Government as well as Mme. Chiang's "secretary-general" on her United States tour...