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...Chinese soldiers blinked when a tall, ungainly, towheaded young Briton with bright hazel eyes and an Oxford voice introduced himself with a visiting card phonetically inscribed "Au Dung" and wandered through battle areas discussing the poetry of Robert Bridges with his companion. Novelist Christopher Isherwood ("Y Hsiao Wu"). In 1936 Icelanders watched the same outlander read the works of Lord Byron while jogging through their bleak countryside on a pony. In 1937 he worked as a censor in the Spanish Loyalist Government. In 1940 this unusual apparition settled improbably in Brooklyn...
...same impression that I had when I went in-that the Administration has no foreign policy." New York's Bernard W. Kearney was briefer: "No hits, no runs, no errors." Others recalled an occasion when John Hay was Secretary of State, and conferred with a Chinese minister named Wu. "I talked & talked until the Minister was hazy," reported Hay, "and the Minister talked & talked until I was woozy...
...Letters about this new edition have come in from such people as the Gissimo and Mme. Chiang Kaishek, Mme. Sun Yatsen, Finance Minister H. H. Kung, General Wu Techen...
Last fall China reciprocated, sent a good-will mission to England to propagate the theme that the two nations should be "co-architects of peace." The missionaries: 52-year-old Dr. Wang Shih-chieh, onetime Minister of Education; editor-publisher Wang Yun-wu; Hu Lin, managing director of the powerful liberal newspaper Takungpao; educators Han Li-wu, Dr. Wen Yuan-ning. They met King George, Winston Churchill and other British bigwigs. Last week Dr. Wang Shih-chieh and Hu Lin arrived in the U.S., the others proceeded to Turkey. They were still making friends for China...
Pudgy, affable Dr. K. C. Wu, Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, announced that China's quislings are not necessarily criminals, warned that "the Government is not taking decision on the basis of public opinion." Minister of Publicity Liang Hanchao defined two methods of dealing with puppets: 1) those willingly serving the enemy "will be brought to book"; 2) those serving to keep their rice bowls filled "may be pardoned and even given liberal treatment." Liang said that Wang Ching-wei, No. 1 puppet in Asia, is definitely one of those to be punished when captured. Others were doubtful, recalled...