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A Chinese named Chou Fu-hai last week made himself the most important personage-if a straw man can ever be more than an effigy of importance-in the Japanese-controlled Nanking regime of Puppet Wang Ching-wei. He is Nanking's Minister of Finance. His importance was not...
Patriotic Chinese say that Mr. Chou (pronounced Joe) has few talents and no virtues. He was educated in Japan. He looks like an old-fashioned Chinese scholar, but has the exaggerated manners of a Japanese corporal. He has turned his political coat so often that it looks threadbare even in...
Last week the Wang Ching-wei puppetry faced a crisis. Mr. Chou gathered in Shanghai a conference of Chinese financiers who had agreed to back Wang's Japanese-sponsored regime. They announced that they would not continue to support Wang unless he were "relegated to a minor capacity in...
In the Nanking Administration Building, where Chiang Kai-shek and his colleagues used to hold state meetings, Puppet Wang sat alone at a long table. In walked General Abe, followed by 22 junior officers. Wang stood up. The General sat down. Wang sat down. The General indicated a document lying...
Generalissimo Chiang was now, according to the Japanese, "a regional outlaw." The Generalissimo thought Wang was the outlaw and put a price of $100,000 (Chinese) on his head. The Japanese had launched an offensive in Hupeh Province, carefully timed to coincide with their diplomatic offensive, and on the heels...