Word: shih
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rumors of war-weariness and low morale in China are sheer nonsense," Dr. Hu Shih, former Chinese Ambassador to the United States said yesterday before his speech at the Faculty Club last night. "China is weary in a physical sense, yes we have been fighting for over five and a half years, but morale is as good as it has ever been...
...Shih, besides serving as Ambassador to this country, is probably the greatest scholar in modern China, and will long be remembered as one of the men who did most to bring China into its swiftly developing importance in world affairs...
Everyone who had followed the mission's progress knew that it had been ignored and rebuffed. Its leader, brilliant General Hsiung Shih-fei, had been assured, a place at the tables where United Nations high strategy is made. He presented his credentials to Franklin Roosevelt, met the Army's Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall and the Navy's COMINCH Admiral Ernest J. King. He set up headquarters in a modest brick house on Embassy Row, covered its walls with maps, got ready to proffer his precious information on the war in the East...
...Shih once said that philosophy was his profession, literature his entertainment, politics his obligation. It was an understatement. As a philosopher Hu Shih is one of the outstanding disciples of the ramified pragmatist, John Dewey. Born in Shanghai, the son of a geographer, Hu Shih was an intellectual prodigy as a child. As a teacher of English during the dark period before the Chinese Revolution, he grew increasingly morbid and dissipated, was once jailed for brawling with a policeman. He came out of this phase to win a Boxer Indemnity scholarship to Cornell (where he was called "Doc"), went...
...student conference has been treated to so many big-name speakers. Besides the President (who promised them post-war peace & plenty, on a national hookup), the students heard Mrs. Roosevelt ("lecturer and writer"), Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, WPB's Bill Batt, retiring Chinese Ambassador Dr. Hu Shih. In the Department of Labor's magnificent auditorium, delegates applauded speech after speech of unimpeachable commencement prose, rallying them to a United Nations victory and a just People's Peace. What they missed was a specific program...