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...predecessors faced with signal lack of success for 150 years-the problem of land frontiers. China's eastern and southern frontiers are sea and mountain; but in the north and west China shares the longest land frontier in the world with Russia. Corrupt and ignorant statesmen of the Manchu dynasty, brutal provincial war lords understood nothing of the art of world politics; Russo-Chinese relations were traditionally...
...expression and defense of new ideas. At eight she tore the painful bandages from her feet; at 14 she bolted a parentally arranged marriage with the son of the Governor of Canton; at 17 she joined Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries, smuggled bombs for the assassination of Manchu officials. After a French education she became China's first woman lawyer and judge...
...travel before achieving unity and victory. But it has been over a year since there were any serious clashes with Chinese Communists in the northeast and north. The far reaches of the nation in the great Northwest were apparently more secure than at any time since the Manchu empire. The Chiangs could be pleased. They awaited Wendell Willkie's visit, remembering as they did on their own trip to the great Northwest that "he who has reason on his side need not speak in a loud voice." Workmen completed carving a 3,200-ft. runway from the solid rock...
...fields and gaming tables, or drifted from Paris hotels to Manhattan hotels, from London to the Isle of Guernsey or the British West Indies, usually fetching up at Monte Carlo or Cannes. There he hobnobbed with other well-heeled amiable drifters such as Edgar Wallace, Somerset Maugham, Sax (Fu Manchu) Rohmer, P. G. Wodehouse, the King & Queen of Siam, the King of Sweden, Lord Rothermere ("although it was before the days of his peerage"), the "inevitable" Berry Wall, Tennis Player Suzanne Lenglen, "whom I boldly declare to have possessed, in her delightfully modeled bathing suit, the most beautiful figure...
Double Ten is China's Fourth of July. On the tenth day of the tenth month, 30 years ago, insurrection against the Manchu dynasty broke out in Central China. It ended in the founding of a republic. Last week, as if timing its action to the anniversary, the Chinese Army announced one of the greatest victories of the Chinese War: Chinese troops had at last hammered their way into the Yangtze River city of Ichang, farthest point of Japanese penetration...