Word: soong
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...Kuomintang, while those in Fukien and Canton stand for a radicalism nearly if not quite Communist. What Fukien's defiance and Canton's demands really meant was that South Chinese statesmen are launching a new onslaught to smash what they call the Nanking "Dynasty of Soong," the real power behind the Nanking Government...
...Utter Annihilation." Three smart sisters and their great brother comprise today the Dynasty of Soong. Their father, the late, pious and ingenious Charles Jones ("Charlie") Soong, made money by printing in China millions of Bibles for the missionary trade. He helped to make history by harboring in his house and backing with his money the Great Rebel. Dr. Sun Yatsen, later First President of the Chinese Republic...
Eldest Daughter Ailing ("Pleasant") Soong is the Sibyl of the clan. She approved the hot haste in which Old Charlie married off Second Sister Ching-ling ("Happy") to First President Sun. Years later when Dr. Sun was dead and when Generalissimo Chiang, once a secretary of Dr. Sun, had conquered all China, "Pleasant" said: "We Soongs can make much of this man." Though he was a Buddhist with concubines and the Soongs are Christians, she approved when Chiang put aside his concubines and married Youngest Sister Mei-ling ("Beautiful"). Meanwhile "Pleasant" herself had married the 75th lineal descendant of Confucius...
...Soong close harmony could not last forever. Last week Eugene Chen was seen to have picked, with his usual perspicacity, a highly opportune moment to assault the House of Soong, i. e. the Chinese Government...
Behind the Soong-Chiang rift of last week-they have quarreled several times before-observers saw more than the chronic impatience of the Chinese Generalissimo with a Finance Minister unable to supply him with unlimited funds for his troops. Recently Dr. Soong, without openly denouncing Generalissimo Chiang. has shown extreme distaste for his policy of conciliation toward Japan. With Soong out of the way, at least for a time, Chiang went the limit last week and announced regular railway service would be reestablished on Nov. 10 between China and Manchukuo for the first time in two years. He hinted that...