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...Cannon"), has fired at an impressive variety of targets, often in terms far beyond occidental ideas of press freedom. His most abiding hates have been the Japanese, the Chinese Communists and Kuomintang corruption. It was Editor Kung who started the criticism that helped sweep Finance Minister T. V. Soong out of office (in 1933), and his attacks have helped unsettle at least three cabinets. Two years ago, David Kung, son of former Finance Minister H. H. Kung and nephew of Madame Chiang, was accused of illegal financial manipulations. Editor Kung's (no kin) shocking headline: DAVID KUNG MUST...
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...subordinates to step aside and hasten negotiations with the Reds. Now, as disaster closed about his government, he had Mao's harsh answer. From mid-afternoon until late at night on the day Communist peace terms were broadcast, Chiang summoned his advisers. He called for T. V. Soong to return from the south. Elder Statesman Carson Chang, author of much of the new constitution which the Reds say must be scrapped, hurried up from Shanghai. While the Gimo conferred, Nanking surged with discussion of the Communist terms...
...China's Westernization proceeded faster than ever. These were the years of new railways, roads, schools, flood control, famine-fighting agencies. Chiang himself struggled with the problem of how the old traditions (represented by Confucianism) could be blended with the new ideas. He married one of the three Soong sisters, Wellesley-graduated Meiling, a Christian and a daughter of famed "Old Charlie" Soong, who had made his first fortune in printing and selling Chinese Bibles. (Chiang's first wife, who was still living then, was sent back to her village, Chinese-style, to live on a pension.) Chiang...
Born. To Emily Hahn ("Micky") Boxer, 43, best-selling authoress (The Soong Sisters, China To Me), and Major Charles Boxer, 44, Britain's Hong Kong intelligence chief in 1941, now a professor of Portuguese literature at King's College, University of London: their second child, a girl (their first, Carola, according to Author Hahn, was born illegitimately in 1941); in Manhattan. Name: Amanda. Weight...