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The invaluable education of Leighton Stuart really began in 1905 when, as a newly married, newly ordained Presbyterian minister, he returned from the U.S. as a missionary to the-country where he had been born, the son of a missionary. After eleven years of teaching the New Testament at the...
As rival representatives vainly continued their negotiations last week, the Nanking dopesters tried to guess what was in Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's mind. His bigger, better-equipped armies might score quick victories if they were unleashed. The reactionary clique within the Kuomintang clamored: "If [General Marshall] would only...
But Kuomintang liberals used the contrary argument that war, even a quickly successful war, would only force the Communists underground, leaving China with disrupted communications and the necessity of maintaining a large, expensive army for police work. Said a leading Nanking official: "Open warfare or the continuation of ... a divided...
Todd's fervor has joined Communists and Nationalists in an incredible alliance against the river. At the Kaifeng gap the two factions worked peaceably within a few miles of each other. In Communist-infested Shantung local leaders promised to mend 400 miles on each river bank and to resettle...
Decline of the West. The Church is also changing its administrative complexion in China. Last week China's first cardinal-shy, humble Thomas Tien was on his way back from Rome. He will take up residence not in Tsingtao (his old vicariate) or Nanking (China's capital) but...