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...Foreign Minister (a post in which Premier T. V. Soong had hitherto doubled) the Government (or Chiang) appointed Wang Shih-chieh, 54, lawyer, educator, scholar and veteran administrator. A European-educated liberal (Universities of London and Paris), Dr. Wang has long advised Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on foreign affairs. Last year he served as the Central Government's chief representative in its bootless negotiations with the Communists. As Information Minister since last November, he considerably liberalized the censorship...
...vice chairman of the joint administration office of the four Government banks it appointed Premier Soong (chairman: Generalissimo Chiang). T. V. replaced his ailing brother-in-law, H. H. ("Daddy") Kung, 64, onetime top man of Chinese finance and administration, now virtually retired from public office...
Still the "CC." Relieved of Foreign Ministry routine. Premier Soong could now devote more attention to China's galloping inflation and related problems. But though T. V. had won great administrative power, he still had to buck the political machine run by the Kuomintang's right-wing "CC" clique, led by the brothers Chen Kuo-fu and Chen...
Premier T. V. Soong was back in Chungking last week. But what he and Generalissimo Joseph Stalin had talked about in Moscow was a top secret...
...version of the Soong-Stalin talks came from a French source. Primarily, the Chinese Premier had sought Russian support for China's fight against Japan and a Russian pledge not to recognize the Chinese Communist regime. Stalin indicated that he would give the pledge on three conditions : 1 ) China must be democratized through a coalition government worked out between Chungking and Yenan; 2) China must agree to special Russian rights in Sinkiang, Outer Mongolia and China's northern provinces; 3) China must agree to Korea's independence...