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...accused Japan or Germany of having a sense of humor; and only they could have staged the puppet show that amused the world last week. One by one Germany's battery of stooges-Rumania, Croatia, Slovakia, Italy and Bulgaria-announced they would recognize Japan's Wang Ching-wei and his marionette Government in Nanking. Germany did likewise. This was Germany's bid for Japan's help, or at least good will, in the Russo-German...
Handsome, brilliant, persuasive, emotional Wang Ching-wei, Japan's puppet President of China, during most of his 57 years has been haunted by the ghost of power, the fantasy of cheering crowds. For praise and power he has already sacrificed the memory of his master, Sun Yatsen, the trust of the Chinese people and his own principles. So last week he actually got an ovation...
...Chungking regime . . . insinuates that Wang Ching-wei is a puppet in the hands of Japan . . . having fallen victim to the fangs of Japanese aggression...
...famously wealthy Edwina Cynthia Ashley, Lord Louis had already had a narrow escape last year when his ship, the Javelin, was torpedoed in a Channel battle but limped safely to port. . . . Ferrying planes from factory to field in Britain was Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's adopted son Chiang Wei-kuo. . . .Earthbound as a Home Guard battalion commander was Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, co-hero of the first non-stop flight from Newfoundland to Ireland in 1919 with Sir John Alcock...
...Wang Ching-wei...