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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OCCUPIED CHINA: Mr. Joe's Job | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OCCUPIED CHINA: Mr. Joe's Job | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OCCUPIED CHINA: Mr. Joe's Job | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Last Card | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Last Card | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

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