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Caught in Hong Kong when war blasted its way onto the Pacific were a handful of Chinese notables, including Finance Minister and Vice Premier H. H. ("Daddy") Kung, his wife and her Soong sister, Madame Sun Yatsen, and much-loved, much-honored K. P. Chen, head of China's Currency Stabilization Board...
...were sentenced to death, ten to forced labor for life. Now printed only in English, Free World plans editions in Chinese, French, Spanish. Editorial board and contributors read like an anti-Fascist Who's Who: Cordell Hull, Nicholas Murray Butler, Dorothy Thompson, Clarence Streit, Eduard Benes, T. V. Soong, Mme. Chiang Kaishek. Its editor is Carlo a Prato, onetime secretary to Count Carlo Sforza when he was Italy's Foreign Affairs Minister (1920-21), for 20 years Geneva correspondent for the New York Times...
Chinese say that when the three Soong sisters, who do not agree about politics, finally come together, it means big news, either good or bad. All three - Mesdames Chiang Kaishek. H. H. Kung, Sun Yat-sen - were in Hong Kong to welcome Currie, and give him, after an 11,183 -mile flight, a "washing dust" reception - a most courteous ceremony, reserved for distinguished visitors who are theoretically tired and dusty after a long journey. Thereafter, honors and interviews; two weekends with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek at his mountain hideaway; inspection of an aviation training school, where a Chinese band ground...
...Indo-China forced U. S. action. There was nothing sensational about Secretary Hull's condemnation of the deal. Nor was it exceptional news when, two days later, Jesse Jones announced an Export-Import Bank loan of $25,000,000 to stabilize Chinese currency-for weeks Financier T. V. Soong has haunted Washington, working for a $100,000,000 loan. There was nothing out of the ordinary when President Roosevelt next decreed a complete embargo on shipments of scrap iron and steel to Japan. In the midst of these moves, whose only distinction was that they were coming more rapidly...
...demonstration of national solidarity at Chengtu, China, three famed Soong sisters marched side by side through the streets in peasant hats while Chengtu stared in admiration: Mmes. H. H. Kung, wife of China's Finance Minister, Chiang Kaishek, wife of the Generalissimo, Sun Yatsen, widow of the founder of the Chinese republic...