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...also celebrated Free China's anniversary, paid tribute to China's struggle. In Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel nearly a thousand leading U.S. friends of China heard United China Relief's President James L. McConaughy, Ambassador Wei Tao-ming, China's Vice Premier and Finance Minister, Dr. H. H. Kung, describe China's indomitable struggle and desperate needs...
Through their puppet, Wang Ching-wei, the Japanese still hope to make a separate peace with some group within the Chungking Government. "They hope to split China away from union with America and England, and, as they say, 'to return China into the bosom of East Asia.' They try to buy defeatists, capitulationists and appeasers, acting under the guise of promising the 'independence and sovereignty of China.' They seek indefatigably to sharpen China's inner discord and arouse civil...
...well as the Ministry for Greater East Asia Affairs. Acceptable to the Army and big business, he is considered a moderate. In 1938, he settled a serious border dispute with the Soviet Union. Last spring he transferred Japan's extraterritorial rights in China to Puppet Wang Ching-wei. His Greater East Asia responsibilities include the continent from Manchuria to Burma. When face-saving or gracious withdrawals become inescapable, Shigemitsu can do both with honorable grace...
...tall and talented tennist, he looks older than his 42 years. He stresses discipline and English composition in a special Calvert up-&-down script. Brown is proud that Calvert has helped make life bearable for U.S. children in crowded Jap concentration camps like that in Shantung's Wei-hsien. The Calvert method was used there for six months by Rochester's Mrs. Frederick G. Scovel, wife of a medical missionary. Repatriated on the Gripsholm last winter, she wrote...
Unlike the army of Honan, this "was a first-rate fighting force,'partly equipped with U.S. howitzers and mortars, partly led by U.S.-trained officers, commanded by the seasoned veteran, General Wei Li-huang, whom his men call "100-victory Wei." Effective air support came from Major General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force...