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...paper marionettes of the Red Cape Players jerked the White Snake Lady through a series of strange and supernatural adventures. But Chinese Ambassador Dr. Hu Shih, guest of honor at a Columbia University China War Relief meeting in Manhattan, was not paying attention. He had come prepared to say that China will fight on, "with or without a Burma Road"; and now he was hurriedly translating into English, by request, a love poem he had written 20 years before. It was a favorite in China. But Dr. Hu feared, as he heard it sung a few minutes later, that...
...northern Burma, a Chinese attack comforted, if it did not materially relieve, the British near Rangoon. Tiny, merry Dr. Wang Shih-chieh, Chungking's Minister of Information, discouraged descriptions of China's Burmese activity as a major offensive. Chinese armies, he said significantly, were always making little offensives and would make big ones only when they had the material wherewithal from...
...conversations progressed, President Roosevelt talked to Russia's Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff. to China's Dr. Hu Shih and Dr. T. V. Soong, Dutch Minister Alexander Loudon, representatives of the Latin American republics and occupied European nations. Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King arrived from Canada...
...almost a decade T. V. has been one of the most potent behind-the-scenes operators in Chinese politics. In Washington he and Ambassador Hu Shih have worked as a team for a year and a half. While Hu Shih ambassadored, made speeches, held the diplomatic front, T. V. in liaison with New Dealer Lauchlin Currie plowed through War Department and Lend-Lease red tape, squeezed supplies for warring China out of reluctant committees...
Kichisaburo Nomura, Japan's one-eyed Ambassador, busily pumped hands in Sumner Welles's waiting room, pumped a hand that swam into his vision from the blind side. It was the Negro attendant reaching for his hat. Next day China's Dr. Hu Shih, two-eyed but confused, made the same mistake, pumped the same hand in the same room...