Word: sinos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spirit of democracy prevailed in China in the 4th century B. C., declared Chi-Yuen Chang, head of the departments of History and Geography at China's National University, in a speech given last night before the Oriental Club in which he commemorated the centenary of Sino-American intellectual friendship. Chang quoted from one of the disciples of Confucius who said. "The people are most important in the nation and the sovereign is of the least importance...
...with his country's geo-graphical, political, military, and economic affairs, Chi-Yuen Chang is visiting this country on a cultural mission sponsored by the U. S. State Department. The subject of his talk to be given in the Lowell House Junior Common Room is "The Centenary Celebration of Sino-American Intellectual Friendship...
...started as deputy consul in Shanghai, moved around among the consulates in Tientsin, Amoy, Tsinan and Peiping. Back as Consul General in Shanghai in the ticklish years preceding the Sino-Japanese war, he made a quiet reputation for himself by getting small things done unobtrusively and well. As a longtime resident of China, he became virtually the head of Shanghai's International Settlement...
...same day in Chungking a new Sino-British treaty was signed. Sealed with red wax and red, white & blue ribbons, it corresponded in all major respects to that signed in Washington. Cabled Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill: "This is to me a signal proof of solidarity among the United Nations...
...obvious that the Chinese, like the Russians, enjoyed Wendell Willkie. And he would obviously be a great warmer of the lukewarm Sino-Allied relations -if he had brought with him enough assurances of material help. Just what he had brought was a military secret. But in Chungking, as in Moscow, Wendell Willkie loudly called for greater United Nations action. At the Gissimo's banquet he said...