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"When travelling in China, one feels one must use every moment to the fullest extent, because there is so much to see, and I had so little time," said Dick Hensman, a free lance correspondent, just back from a month's visit to China which took him to Peking, Shanghai...
R: It could happen; it did happen once in fact. The Nanking government, just at the moment the Japanese invaded and put an end to everything, had set up--with the Minister of Education as Chairman--a committee to put my recommendations based on Basic English into China wherever the...
It was too good to be true, and I couldn't believe it had happened. By the time I got back to Peking--this all happened in Nanking--I found the Japanese had invaded in strength and all that sort of thing was over. Something like it could happen again...
"But those years would have been a pleasant nostalgic blur," he said, had he not gone back to China in 1948, the year before he entered Yale. "I went ostensibly to attend the University of Nanking, but that fall the roof fell in."
When the Civil War spread to Nanking, Thomson and an American friend covered four or five thousand miles traveling around China "by every conveyance known to man."