Word: szechwan
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Chang got Szechwan under control, gathered more experience at the Gimo's elbow, practiced his halting English. Sociable, with an eye for bright ties and an ear for funny stories, Chang got along well with Westerners...
...Thus to the world's notice last week came a Chinese of whom the world would doubtless hear more: General Chang Chun (58 but looking younger), Governor of rich Szechwan (Chungking's province), leader of Nanking's moderate Political Science Group, friend of Chiang Kai-shek since they went to military school together in Japan...
...forced back by the Japanese, Chiang gave old friend Chang the job of getting remote Szechwan province under control, in preparation for moving the capital to Chungking. He made Chang, himself a Szechwanese, the governor. But the close-knit Szechwan old guard refused to accept Chang. Thereupon the Generalissimo assumed the title of governor himself, worked Chang in as special assistant, and in 1940 slipped out from under, leaving Chang in charge...
...Chang's Szechwan thrives the gravely gamboling panda. When they began to charm children and zoo addicts in general, Chang arranged to ship out two of the rare creatures a year-in exchange for forign scholarships for Szechwan youths.* Recently he admitted his love for American-style ice cream (made on his home freezer). Chang's attractive wife talked of rationing his helpings...
...rumor "This is it" ran through Shanghai's ever-jittery streets. But the peasants in Szechwan and Yunnan provinces, getting ready for the spring crops, were undoubtedly less excited...