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For embattled China, these were hardly encouraging deeds or words. But in Nanking, hard-pressed Nationalists were ready to settle for what they could get. Small as the sum was, it would be enough to cover China's current dollar deficit. By providing new funds for relief imports, it...
Miss Li & Miss Liu. Loudspeaker trucks blared through the streets of Nanking and other large cities. Walls were pasted with purple and yellow posters proclaiming the virtues of candidates; across one a skeptic had scrawled "tsui niu" (bull-thrower). "Ward and block bosses," commented Nanking's Hsin Min Pao...
Miss Li Chien-hung (TIME, Nov. 10) was one candidate who tasted both the sweet and the sour. Slim, husky-voiced Miss Li, 31, a Kuomintang member for only two years, was popular for helping families in her Nanking ward to get relief and jobs. But her rival, Miss Liu...
"With Wallace . . ." Treatment of missionaries and mission property by the Reds seemed to depend on the whims or decisions of individual officers. In the city of Tsaoyang, mild-mannered young Missionary .Philip Werdal, of Bellingham, Wash., underwent repeated interrogation from 27-year-old Communist Colonel Wong, graduate of Nanking University...
Few U.S. correspondents in China were surprised at USIS' slanting of the news. USIS headquarters in Shanghai, run by big, beefy Bradley Connors, had consistently trimmed its sails to the State Department's anti-Chiang clique. From Nanking, TIME Correspondent Fred Gruin reported: