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...Generalissimo wrote her a letter which never reached her: "I will never allow myself to do anything to make my wife ashamed of me, or become unworthy of being a follower of Dr. Sun Yatsen. . . . You must never come to Shensi...
Dirty Politics. In December 1936, Madame went to Shanghai for a rest; she was ill. The Generalissimo flew up to Sian in the northwestern province of Shensi to put down the Red foolishness once & for all, and to discipline some insubordinate Central Government troops who preferred fighting Japanese to fighting Communists. He was in for a surprise...
...great personal risk, she went to Shensi. At Sian she gave a revolver to Donald and made him promise to shoot her if she was seized by the rebels. The kidnappers let her see the Generalissimo. As soon as she entered the room where he lay, shockingly emaciated, he showed her a verse in the Bible he had found that very morning: "Jehovah will now do a new thing, and that is, He will make a woman protect a man." She read psalms to him until he slept...
Quid pro Quo. Russia's attention may well focus on the Far East. Stalin may ask for "an independent Soviet Republic of Manchuria, affiliated with the U.S.S.R.; a similar Republic of Korea; and even, perhaps, the Northwestern Chinese Soviet Republic of Sinkiang, Ningsia and Shensi." Russia, said Duranty, wants control of West Pacific ports, has no love for Japan and will be willing to cooperate in "our death stroke" against the Japanese when the U.S. puts into action "a really powerful force of airplanes...
Only a one-line announcement in Chungking newspapers revealed that Chiang and the Missimo had been in the northwest provinces (Sinkiang, Kansu, Ningsia, Shensi, Chinghai) for several weeks. Whom they talked with and where they went was a wartime secret. Only after Chiang had spoken to his top officials for a full hour did some of the things that he and Mme. Chiang learned become known...