Word: soong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...magnificent result. When Chinese district generals and provincial governors clashed in their provinces the Government, instead of expensively asserting its authority, let them fight out their quarrels of the moment and let each winner keep the provincial revenues. Not the least amazing feature of Finance Minister Dr. T. V. Soong's balanced budget last week was the fact that under the heading Income from Provincial Revenues he was obliged to set down...
China's heroic eigth Route Army on its desperate and hopeless defense of Shanghai (TIME, March 14 et ante), was contributed not by the Government but by terror-stricken Shanghai bankers and merchants and patriotic Chinese abroad-a clear budgetary saving of $12,000,000. As Dr. Soong said stubbornly, three months after the Shanghai Incident: "At present the most important thing for China is to restore her financial stability. We must go on living within our income for a year. We have done it for five months. The Chinese financial situation is better now than that...
Sponsors of these drastic measures were at first announced to include Finance Minister Dr. T. V. Soong, who would have to find the money for a Chinese military adventure and Sun Fo. son of the late, great Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Father of the Revolution" of 1911 which overthrew China's ruling Manchu House. Next day Dr. Soong and Mr. Sun denied sponsoring the resolutions which, nevertheless, had passed and produced immediate results. Within a few hours Chinese patriots stole into the British Concession at Tientsin, approached the residence of the Japanese Consul General, threw a bomb which exploded with much...
...understood by their followers, they have devised a system that works marvellously well in such landlord ridden provinces as Kiangsi and Hupeh. Last year it cost $45,000,000 to fight them. Most of the Nationalists were cool to the idea of battling Communism, notably Finance Minister T. V. Soong who resigned because he believed it a waste of money. His return this year was taken to indicate an easing...
...During the darkest hour of China's desperate defense," cried Chinese Banker T. V. Soong, speaking for the Chinese Government, "Robert Short, a friend from a distant land, flew out-of the sky and gave his life. . . . To the Chinese people this act of courage and sacrifice was electrifying." Posthumously Hero Short was created a Chinese Colonel...