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...young Dr. Edward Hume, of Yale and Johns Hopkins, had been sent to Hunan Province to do just that. He opened his dispensary on one of Chang-sha's main streets in November 1906. It was not much of a place to look at-four whitewashed rooms in what had been an old inn. The original staff consisted merely of a gatekeeper, a janitor and the doctor. They hung out a black-and-gold lacquered sign reading Yali I Yuan (Yale Court of Medicine), and patients began to drift in. Yali I Yuan was the first Yale-in-China...
...Communists and fellow travelers, he maintained concentration camps. He was an honest man, scorning the traditional "squeeze." Once he discovered a close friend's malfeasance, invited him to dinner, had police arrest him, testified against him in court, had him shot. Friend and foe said of Tai: "Sha jen pu cha yen citing-He can kill a man without blinking...
...will die on the appointed hour within plain sight (opera glasses permit a closer view of the performers' faces). The guns will sound very loud, but it is just a bit too far off to hear men scream as they get hit or hear them yell "sha sha" ("kill") as Chinese soldiers are supposed to do on the attack...
...other factor, had brought the nation unbowed 'to 1944's Double Seventh. China's soldiers (5,000,000 in all) had withstood hunger, disease, a continuous inequality of arms, commanders' inanition, retreat after retreat. Yet they had won notable defensive battles (Taierhchwang, Chang-sha), and had never finally given...
Warszawa (Warsaw): var-sha...