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Dirty Houses. What followed changed her plenty. She left gay, comfortable, clean Shanghai and went to her husband's headquarters in shoddy Nanking. Chiang was engaged in unifying China, ruthlessly and singlemindedly. He was appeasing Japan, so that he might prepare China against Japan. Madame went with him on...
Madame Chiang and the other Soongs gathered in Nanking. They sent William Henry Donald, their Australian confidant, to Sian to see what he could do.
In Nanking, Madame found herself surrounded by men apparently glad to have Chiang out of the way. When she tried to argue that the future of China was bound up with his, they taunted her: "A woman pleading for the life of her husband."
On Oct. 23, 1937 Madame Chiang and W. H. Donald were driving from Nanking to Shanghai to inspect wounded soldiers. At about 4:30 the high-powered car was running around a steeply banked curve when some Japanese bombers appeared overhead. The panicky driver stepped on the gas. The car...
Periodically, in the tough years of war since that accident, Madame has felt at the end of her rope. She has usually blamed the way the chauffeur drove that car, but she should have blamed the way she drove herself. As the Government moved from Nanking to Hankow and from...