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...According to our information, T. V. Soong, the Chinese Finance Minister, has cabled to Nanking* urging the Government not to conclude an armistice, because he hoped to persuade the American Government somehow to intervene if the campaign is extended to Peiping. We shall be jolly well careful not to be lured into this trap...
...Soong came to the United States as special ambassador from China to confer with President Roosevelt and is now on the way back to his country. He studied at the Business School for two years and, before holding his present offices, was president of the Chinese Central Bank. He is now considered to be the foremost political figure in China...
...Soong, Vice-President and Minister of Finance of China, will speak in the Junior Common Room of Kirkland House after a dinner to be held there at 6.30 o'clock on Friday. Members of the University are invited to attend and it is possible that President Lowell will be present...
...called yuans. As in Russia the so-called "President" (Mr. Lin Sen) and so-called "Premier" (Mr. Wang Ching-wei) are of scant importance, effective power being centred nationally in Generalissimo Chiang and his Brother-in-law Finance Minister Dr. Sung Tse-wen, better known as T. V. Soong. Locally the Chinese people's talent for "muddling through" provides law & order under the regional dictatorships of War Lords like famed Han Fu-chu of Shantung Province (TIME...
Though he withholds the provincial revenues from Finance Minister Soong and does about as he pleases, able War Lord Han leaves Shantung's relations with the Great Powers and the League of Nations to Nanking Foreign Minister Lo Wen-kan who writes & receives diplomatic notes for all China...