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...Harold Ickes pulled on a pair of the most unpressed trousers the natives had ever seen, an old grey sweater, a pair of scuffed brown oxfords, and opened his shirt-collar. His young red-haired wife, Jane (Dahlman), changed to tight-fitting blue cowboy dungarees, jodhpur boots, a tan wool jacket. Safe at home, 3,000 miles away on the Olney, Md. farm, were the two babies: two-year-old Harold McEwen Ickes, a beautiful, healthy, roto-section child, with big blue eyes and golden curls; and little four-months-old Jane, who looks like any four-months-old Jane...
...from Iraq in the west marched a British column. More British troops landed at Bandar Shahpur, southern terminus of the Trans-Iranian Railway. To the north Red Army troops began their long trek through the mountains into Iran from Russian Armenia. In India's northwest province of Baluchis tan other British forces stood ready to attack from the east. Directing Britain's whole effort was General Sir Archibald Wavell...
Soon Chisholm's superiors decided he would really be better off in China. So they hustled him out to Pai-tan, a remote, upriver mission. Wrote the secretary of the foreign missions society: "Pai-tan is a delightful spot . . . four hundred communicants and over one thousand baptisms. . . . My dear fellow, I rejoice that this prize is to be yours. . . . Get good strong durable soutanes. Short drawers are the best and I advise a body belt...
When Father Chisholm reached Pai-tan, he found "an acre of deserted earth, sun-scorched, gullied by the rains. ... At one end stood the remnants of a mud-brick chapel, the roof blown off, one wall collapsed, the others crumbling. Alongside lay a mass of caved-in rubble which might once have been a house." "Here, Father," said one of the only two rice-Christians left of the congregation, "is the mission...
...this rubbish, in the midst of hatred and contempt. Father Chisholm built the mission of Pai-tan and his spiritual life. How he taught himself to practice medicine, how he saved the life of Tycoon Chia's son, how he brought Pai-tan through the plague, famine, banditry, how he overcame the deep Teutonic hatred of his German Reverend Mother, made friends with the Methodist missionaries, was tortured by bandits and escaped, make up most of The Keys of the Kingdom...