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Married. Mary Jane Soong, 23, Wellesley-educated daughter of Financier T. V. Soong, onetime (1945-47) Premier of Nationalist China, and niece of Mme. Chiang Kaishek; and Charles K. Eu, 27, Columbia University student; in Manhattan...
...before President Truman announced the unconditional surrender of Japan-Nationalist China and Russia signed in Moscow a treaty of friendship and alliance. T. V. Soong, China's Premier and leader of its delegation, and Joseph Stalin, who had affably joined the long-dickering sessions, looked on as Molotov and China's Foreign Minister Wang Shih-chieh wrote their names. For the Chinese it was pretty much of a mockery-the terms which gave Russia a stranglehold in Manchuria had already been laid out by the Big Three at Yalta without China's concurrence...
...subject of corruption hardly put them at ease. There was still another conference in Chinese, accompanied by a few scowls. "Corruption is in every government, even America. They say that the Soong brothers got very rich, but in the new government the Soongs will not have a part. There is not so much corruption in the Kuomintang as the Communists say, it is not because of that we lost...
Communism has not yet blocked the read to democratic freedom in Asia, Owen Lattimore said last night at the opening of Wellesley's Third Quadrennial Mayling Soong Foundation Institute...
Lattimore, recently the center of a Congressional investigation of Communist infiltration into the State Department, is slated to speak at Wellesley's Mayling Soong Foundation Institute in Far Eastern Affairs. A professor at Johns Hopkins University, he is one of six experts holding "varying points of view" invited to address the Institute...