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...kept a blue-and-red muffler up to his chin. On the chairman's dais behind him sat rotund Sun Fo, Legislative Yuan president, and over Sun's head hung the inevitable portrait of the chairman's father, Sun Yatsen, with the words "Tien hsia wei kung" -Everything for the people...
General Marshall himself arrived at 10 minutes before 8. On a cold concrete apron, wet with melted snow, a cluster of photographers and dignitaries were waiting. Among the latter were Ambassador Stuart, Premier T. V. Soong, Chief of Staff Chen Cheng, Communications Minister Yu Ta-wei, Foreign Minister Wang Shih-chieh, General G. Q. Huang, Communist spokesman Wang Ping-nan. It was all very casual and informal-no ropes, no visible guards; everyone intermingled...
...world organization, Dr. Koo was China's man at the League of Nations, the pleader for its action to halt Japanese aggression. At San Francisco he was the first to sign the U.N. Charter (he used a brush to write the Chinese characters of his name: Ku Wei-chun). Yale-trained Dr. Koo is the man TIME'S Editor Henry R. Luce will introduce in opening discussion of the Far East and Pacific...
...wei (David Yu). During the Japanese war a compact, precise little Harvard Ph.D. ran Free China's small-arms factories, made them the best-administered of all Government agencies. Dr. Yu's reward was Nanking's toughest job: restoration of railroads wrecked by eight years of invasion and civil war. Given the rank of general, Dr. Yu runs his Communications Ministry like a military chief of staff, keeps detailed "phase charts" of his repair offensives. A scholar and administrator rather than a politician, he is generally respected (even by the Reds whose saboteurs persistently blow...
Even at his trial Chen was in the shadow of a more colorful and sinister puppet. Wang Ching-wei's shrewd, fat, diabetic, bad-tempered widow, Chen Pi-chun, came before the court this week. Wang's closest political adviser, she henpecked her handsome husband and bullied her four grown children, three of whom have also been jailed. Chen Pi-chun was unrepentant, but she wrote her children that she was ready, even eager...