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...supplies were coming in; that was the important thing. The Chinese high command, in new headquarters at Kunming, prepared to muster its best forces: the American-trained First and Sixth Armies from India, the troops of bushy-mustached, "100-Victories" Marshal Wei Li-huang, the battle-tried formations of hot-tempered, half-pint General Hsueh Yueh. From Yünnan's high plateau these troops could look out over China's gullied lands; strike out to aid the Allies who might some day land on the coast...
...disturbingly vertical. We shall not feel quite the same after that breakfast. We asked if hens are fed different food, perhaps BB shot, at this time of year? There was no evidence. Bizarre theories, having to do with the moon's pull, were frowned upon. Even Jimmy Wei, sprightly sage of the Ministry of Information, had no information. "Why try to explain in one day," he asked practically, " what has not been explained in four thousand years...
...have nothing to do all day," he said fretfully, "but chant. . . ."), an Australian brunette named Jean (she worked in Mrs. "Buffalo" San's so-called "massage" establishment), green-trousered Dr. Chu, author of A Study of the Vaginal Vibrations of the Female Rabbit and later Puppet Wang Ching-wei's "Ambassador" to Tokyo...
Ever since he became puppet ruler of Jap-conquered China five years ago, Wang Ching-wei had expected death-at the hands of assassins. For several years he had carried in his body one bullet that failed to kill him. But last fortnight, when death, as it must to all men, came to China's No.11 traitor (aged 60, in a Japanese hospital), it came not from gunfire but from diabetes...
Wang Ching-wei entered Chinese politics at the age of 27, with a plot to assassinate a Manchu prince. After his release from jail, he studied sociology and political science in France and Japan. Later, as an active Chinese nationalist, he became a devoted disciple of China's liberator, Dr. Sun Yatsen...