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Said President Chiang Kai-shek last fortnight: "The mistake most of our comrades make is that they show too much tendency to rely upon foreign help. . . . Those who have energy must give energy; those who have money must give money." Ex-Premier T. V. Soong, one of China's wealthiest men and the President's brother-in-law, responded promptly...
Chen is China's leading Confucian-in-politics, and he stresses the excellence of all-or most-things Chinese. Yet Chen is not antiforeign. He deplores the tendency of Westernized Harvardman T. V. Soong to infuse massive doses of Westernization into a country which, so far, has been at least as much hurt as helped by contact with the West. Like any thoughtful Oriental, Chen is aware of the Japanese example of too rapid, superficial absorption of Western ways. Chen says...
...overshadowed by his country's emergency. At a time when much depends on what the West thinks of China's Government, liberal forces have grown stronger in Nanking. Chang Chun, whose own version of the East-West amalgam is between Chen's and T. V. Soong's, is premier with the Gimo's blessing. The interim regime that is to prepare for full-scale constitutional government and free elections, by next Christmas, contains few CC clique men, is strong with representatives of the more liberal "Political Science Group." Chen has an interesting explanation...
...Among those later named: former Premier T. V. Soong, Foreign Minister Wang Shih-chieh, and the Mongolian Changchia Hutuketu-one of Lamaism's most important "Living Buddhas...
Above all, Hangchow is now a place where many a statesman seeks surcease from the slings and arrows of partisanship. T. V. Soong rested here recently and even the Gimo stopped over on his way back toward the haggle of Government reorganization. Five hundred years ago, Hsieh Chin wrote...