Word: pao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boulogne Beginnings. Jimmy's ancestors were old-fashioned scholars. In the Mission School of Western Learning at Pao-ning, he studied science, geography, history, English and Christianity. After his Hong-Kong Edward VII Scholarship blew up because he was not a British subject, Jimmy was reduced to going to Yale ('18) and Princeton (M.A. '20). After graduating from Yale he went to France for the Y.M.C.A., worked in a Boulogne canteen for 5,000 coolies of a military labor battalion. These workers kept Jimmy busy writing their letters home, reading newspapers to them...
...sober men knew the importance of the step. That morning they had read in Sao Tang Pao (the Army newspaper) a selection from Chiang's new book China's Destiny: "In the past China's destiny depended on foreign policy. Now it depends on our ability to secure inner political unification and concentration of national power. China stands at the watershed of her fate, a fate which will be decided during the present war and within two years...
...with Russian single-mindedness, the Chinese press has an almost democratic diversity and vivacity. No newspapers have been suppressed outright except the "mosquito" tabloids which before the war achieved a lewdness beyond description. Competing for readers in Chungking are 13 dailies, including the Communist paper, the "liberal" Ta Rung Pao, the Roman Catholic Social Welfare Daily (Yih Shih Pao), the racy evening tabloid, New People's Daily (Hsin Min Pao), and the official Kuomintang and Army sheet, Central Daily News (Chung Yang Jih Pao), which has a partly free circulation of 150,000-perhaps more than all the others...
...Long? How Strong? The Chinese, sensing the potential effectiveness of this insidious campaign, urged loudly last week that the Allies act quickly against Japan. In Chungking the official newspaper Ta Kung Pao recalled that the great Chinese strategist, Sun Tzu, advocated the crushing of the weakest adversary first. The paper asked: "How strong will Japan become in nine months, in one and a half years, or in two and a half years during which the United Nations are concentrating against Hitler...
...Knox statement made the Chinese blow their top with righteous anger. Said the Chinese military, through their Chung-king newspaper Sao Tang Jih Pao: "Signs of Anglo-American reinforcements are absent while British and American authorities continue to indulge in sidetracking remarks...