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Born. To Nelson Trusler Johnson, U. S. Minister to China, and Jane Beck Johnson; a son, Nelson Beck; in Peiping.
From Shanghai, where he had lived in constant terror of kidnapping since fleeing Japan's invasion of Jehol, disgraced Marshal Chang Hsiao-Hang, resigned ruler of Peiping, sailed for Italy with his wife and 17 female "secretaries."
In Siam, Shaw was for once obscured, by the presence of Prince Curbhatra aboard the Empress of Britain. In Peiping he flew over the Great Wall and contented himself with saying: "There is a Japanese soldier pointing a rifle at every Chinese inhabitant, but keeping down nationalism is like sitting...
Too smart to fight Japan, the Generalissimo had left that hopeless & thankless task to the "Young Marshal" who miserably failed to hold Jehol (TIME, March 13 et ante). Last week the New Deal was dealt ceremoniously on the General Staff Train which halted 90 miles short of Peiping at Paotingfu...
Until the earthquake shook other thoughts from their minds, biggest news of the week to California's unemployed doctors & aviators was Dr. Chung's combined Air & Medical Corps. It was big news to Nanking and Peiping too, where the Corps was expected to bring valuable flyers and doctors...