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...Washington this week Chinese Ambassador Wei Tao-ming inked his paint brush and with delicate strokes inscribed his signature on a new U.S. treaty abolishing U.S. extraterritoriality rights and other special privileges in China. His co-signer was Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who said: "All of us have looked forward to this...
...lean years losses totaled about $250,000. Both the Chinese and Japanese Governments frequently tried to win the Post's support by subsidy; Starr and Gould always retorted: "We'll quit publishing first!" Wang Ching-wei, head of the Japanese-supported regime in Nanking, once futilely ordered Starr and Gould deported. Through it all, by sticking rigidly to their pledge to "follow the American newspaper tradition of free speech," Starr and Gould finally lifted their fledgling publication into the black. By Dec. 7, 1941, they were averaging $35,000 a year net profit...
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...