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...stealthy Malayan jungle war against the British, slim, scar-faced Yang Kuo slipped in and out of villages and rubber plantations under a dozen aliases, and boasted to Communist comrades that five British imperialists had died for each of his assumed names. From rain-forest hideaways, he trained and indoctrinated terrorists with such skulking zeal that he rose to the post of secretary of his state committee and finally to the job of vice secretary-general of the Malayan Communist Party...
...Ching-kuo, is there with his two younger grandchildren, with whom he romps delightedly. He naps briefly in the afternoon, works on papers, then summons favorite ministers in the late afternoon. After dinner Chiang often watches a movie or reads Chinese philosophers and poetry. A favorite is Confucian Wang Yang-ming, who taught that "to know and yet not to do is in fact not to know...
...restitution have been more colorful than many would imagine. A native of Boston, he graduated from the College and the Law School, entering practice locally in 1904. Two years later, at the suggestion of Dean Ames, he left for China to organize a law school at the Imperial Pei Yang University. For his five years of work there the Chinese government decorated him with the Order of the Double Dragon--which he says, means virtually nothing...
Asked to elaborate on the possibilities of independence for Indochina, Yang answered that there is no doubt that Indochina can be independent. The Vietnamese will shoulder the responsibility without trouble, although it may require a few years of struggle...
Reischauer, speaking on the same problem as Yang, came to different conclusions concerning Indochina. "It is too late to find the happy answer," he said. The Vietnamese are not fighting for their independence, and should France grant them this, he explained, the European country would probably pull out of the war at the same time...