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...prompt support of grey-goateed Ma came passionate, pockmarked Yang Ti-chung, a Western-clad tribesman of the 71st generation from Kweichow. Yang said he represented 50 million Yi and Miao people, almost half the population of Sikang, Kwangsi, Szechwan, Yunnan and Hunan.* Yang invoked the shade of Sun Yatsen, also threatened withdrawal...
...cries of "Bravo!" and "Disrupter!", Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek scribbled an unofficial note to Provisional Chairman Sun Fo. Secretary-General Hung Lan-yu glanced at it, got silence, announced: "The delegate from Kweichow, Chang Tao-fan, voluntarily withdraws as candidate . . . and offers his place to his provincial colleague Yang Ti-chung...
...Miao are among China's aboriginal tribes, have resisted admixture for thousands of years although they were nominally "conquered" by the Han Emperor, Wu Ti (B.C. 140-87). The Manchu Emperor Ch'ien Lung waged savage war against the Miao in the 18th Century, but there has been no violent friction since, except for a brief outbreak in 1832. The tribesmen live mainly in the hills of far southwestern China. Both Yi and Miao have maintained their own tribal governments, customs and dress. They pan gold and hunt animals, trading metal and furs with the plains people...
When Tito drives through the streets of Belgrade in a bullet-proof car, accompanied by tanks and four truckloads of soldiers, crowds yell: "Tito, Ti-to!" (to the familiar rhythm of "Duce, Du-ce!"). Children chant: "Kral se zenio, Tito se borio" ("The King married, Tito fought"). Ancient ballads praising ex-King Peter's ancestor (Kara George, a prominent Serbian hero and hog farmer) are changed to fit Tito. Sample...
When Mrs. Ruth Li of Singapore had her first baby, a girl, she named the infant Patsy Li (from Pai-ti Li, which is Chinese for "White Plum Blossom"). Patsy was six and had a younger sister, Lottie, when the Japanese attacked Malaya. Mrs. Li escaped from Singapore with her two children aboard a ship. At sea, the ship was torpedoed and sunk by the Japs...