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...press conference in London last week, reporters shot straightforward questions at T. V. Soong, China's sturdy Foreign Minister. Cosmopolite Soong, brother of Mme. Chiang Kaishek, answered in plain English. Result: a broad-scale, official blueprint of China's postwar policies...
Born. To T. L. Soong, 50, Chinese financier, younger brother of Mme. Chiang Kaishek; and Maying Hsi Soong, 24, daughter of Te-mou Hsi, representative in Washington, of China's Ministry of Finance: a daughter, their first child; in Washington. Weight...
...hardboiled, stern Generalissimo, whose mother was a devout Buddhist, came under the influence of three powerful Christian influences in youth and early manhood-Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Mother" K. T. Soong and her daughter, Meiling. In 1930, three years after he had married the brilliant, Wellesley-educated Meiling, Chiang was baptized a Methodist, the faith of his wife and her family. But not until his captivity in Sian, by his testimony, did his religion become a part of himself, and thus a part of China...
...know my mother ['Mother' Soong] lived very close to God. I recognized something great in her. And I believe that my childhood training influenced me greatly even though I was more or less rebellious at the time. ... I found family prayers tiresome. ... I hated the long sermons. But today I feel that this church-going habit established something, a kind of stability...
While in the U.S. Anthony Eden will have the run of the White House, will confer with Wendell Willkie, Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff, Chinese Foreign Minister T. V. Soong. He may make one formal speech, perhaps in Maryland (over which his great-great-grandfather, Sir Robert Eden, once ruled as colonial Governor), plans also to visit U.S. war plants, military and naval establishments...