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"For us now there is only death," sighed a dainty dancer at a huge protest rally in Shanghai's New Fairy Forest ballroom last week. A delegation of ten, led by graceful, limpid-eyed Meng Yen, queen of the Metro-Goldwyn (no kin to Hollywood) dance hall, was promptly...
Names for a General. In Nanking, Chinese leaders turned over in their minds Wedemeyer's parting advice:
Music for Cows. One man whose liberalism and incorruptibility was accepted by all non-Communist Americans in China was Dr. Hu Shih, president of the University of Peking and former Ambassador to the U.S. Last week Dr. Hu Shih said of the U.S.: "Don't they see there'...
In Nanking, the Government announced "thrift and austerity" decrees to save dwindling foreign exchange and increase efficiency. The Government payroll (on which, a Cabinet spokesman estimated, some 18 million Chinese, including Army and students, now depend) would be reduced immediately. Food, cloth, gasoline and newsprint would come under new rationing...
Princess Elizabeth, whose country house burned and who would have no trousseau, had nice news for a change. Nanking sent a Foreign Office man into Kiangsi province to watch over the production of a good Chinese porcelain service for her.