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...herself. A most charming, accomplished Wellesley graduate, the Dictator's wife makes the official English translations of his speeches. He consults her in all things and it was she who drew him into the Christian faith (TIME, Nov. 3, 1930). Last week Mme Chiang, her brother T. V. Soong, who is the financial kingpin of China, and her brother-in-law, Dr. H. H. Kung, who took on the functions of Premier in China's awful emergency, held the destiny of Eastern Asia in their hands. One false move, they knew, might alter the course of world history...
...persons, if not hundreds, for all soldiers in China ought to be the Premier's. If the Young Marshal had demanded say $50,000,000 ransom money, the whole thing would have been orthodox, for Mme Chiang is of China's great financial family, the House of Soong, and if they have not got $50,000,000 they know how to raise it on a few hours' notice "for the welfare of China" from the country's richest class...
...Chiang's break with Moscow, where his name is now execrated; resignation by Chiang of all his Chinese offices on two separate occasions; one visit by the General to Japan where years ago he got his original military training at Tokyo Military Academy; his marriage to Christian Miss Soong, and his baptism as a Southern Methodist after the Ningpo Napoleon had said, "I feel the need of a God such as Jesus Christ...
...English translation by Christian Premier Chiang Kai-shek's second-generation Christian wife, the former Miss Mei-ling ("Mayling") Soong, Wellesley '17. It took courage for Premier Kai-shek thus to scold his 450 million countrymen, courage for him to become a Christian, and supreme courage to launch the great Chinese national movement which last week seemed about to give Asiatic history a new twist. It was as though President Roosevelt should have become a Mohammedan and prefaced his New Deal with some such words as: "Our American people seem to me a nation of jazz-loving...
...Soong, in addition to being General Manager of the China Development Finance Corp., which looms as a nation-wide enterprise under Generalissimo Chiang's powerful protection, is Managing Director of the great Manufacturers Bank of China, one of whose most important branches is in teeming Canton. Thither T. L. Soong arranged to go last week as "Financial Commissioner" with a great retinue of Chinese bankers, including directors of the country's three government banks...