Word: weis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Petite, witty, 48-year-old Mme. Wei Tao-ming, high-born wife of China's new Ambassador to Washington, has devoted her life to the expression and defense of new ideas. At eight she tore the painful bandages from her feet; at 14 she bolted a parentally arranged marriage with the son of the Governor of Canton; at 17 she joined Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries, smuggled bombs for the assassination of Manchu officials. After a French education she became China's first woman lawyer and judge...
Last week Mme. Wei tossed a new idea into the ring of Far Eastern planning: a couple of good sound lickings would melt Japanese "nerves of steel," pinprick Japan's bubble empire. The annihilation of Japan would be unnecessary. The power of the military party broken, a Japanese republic could educate the people away from long-established habits of Emperor worship and blind obedience to war lords...
...Wei's ideas clashed sharply with those of onetime Ambassador Joseph Grew, who warned: "We are up against a people whose morale cannot and will not be broken even by successive defeats." Besides differing on this important point with Ambassador Grew, Mme. Wei failed to suggest how a republic was to be set up in Japan...
...marauding samurais (upper left) lunging through rich paddy fields. But millions have grinned at other posters on the walls of disemboweled buildings, posters including that of the artist who produced the little Nipponese angels (above). Peculiarly satisfying to the Chinese is also the kneeling statue (left) of Wang Ching-wei, Japan's puppet premier of the Nanking Government. During the Sung dynasty (10th to 13th Centuries) a similar kneeling statue was erected to Ch'in Kuei, China's Benedict Arnold, a cast-iron image that for centuries was spat upon and defiled by the populace in Hangchow...
...Received the new Chinese Ambassador, short, smiling, 45-year-old Dr. Wei Tao-Ming. Said Dr. Wei: "China must-and China certainly wants to-start an offensive, an offensive that cannot be started without adequate supplies and the complete cooperation of the United States. Such an offensive, I am fairly convinced, would end the War of the Pacific in a year or less...