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...economic emergency," China's Premier T. V. Soong has reported, "is no less serious than the war itself." Most urgently, China needs food; in the drought-scorched central provinces, millions are facing famine. T. V. has said that imports of wheat, wheat flour and rice can solve a third of his nation's most pressing economic problems...
...Mukden, they talked to one Soong Chu-sheng, tobacco factory manager. He told them how the Russians had looted last fall, had methodically stripped factories, had taken two-thirds of his cigaret output without pay. Shortly afterward, the talkative Soong was shot by a gunman. Several of the correspondents accused themselves in print of being "unwitting motivators" of his murder...
...Able, Western-minded T. V. Soong, President of the Executive Yuan and the Generalissimo's brother...
...hoping that we could foster peace by redeploying the Government armies where they could command peace, we neglected to consider the consequences of failure. We pursued a policy of optimism based on Chungking's hope that the Stalin-Soong agreement would quiet China's Communists and that there would be no fighting. Now we are confronted with the ugly fact of civil...
...four days the excitement continued. Soldiers of Chiang Kai-shek's army were all over the place. Only a few companies of Lung's troops did any shooting, and the Dragon never had a chance. On the fourth day Premier T. V. Soong flew down from Chungking. He and the Chinese commander in chief, General Ho Ying-chin, had a morning conference with General Lung, that afternoon escorted the amiable old scoundrel by air to Chungking. General Lu Han, Lung's former aide, took over the Yunnan government for the Generalissimo...