Word: yat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kong's plot was discovered and the Empress put a price of $10,000 on Lea's head. He made his way to Hong Kong, there met the great Sun Yat Sen, who later made Lea his chief military adviser with the rank of general. Lea went with Dr. Sun into exile in Japan. Then he went back to San Francisco and, after years of travel and study, wrote The Valor of Ignorance...
Politically China's young officers are naive; spiritually they are the ultimate sophisticates. They protest that they are democratic, because democracy was one of Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles, and the Army, more than Chungking, mouths the words of China's George Washington. They love the U.S. because they believe that the U.S. will send them big guns. However, they tend to sympathize with the rigid social codes of Totalitaria, specifically with those of militarily successful Germany...
These fine young officers are the product of two institutions. In the early years of the republic, Paoting Military Academy turned out eight classes of men who helped implement the revolution of Sun Yat-sen and who now command about one-third of China's 300-odd divisions. In 1924 the Whampoa Academy was founded under the direction of Chiang Kaishek. Its classes became the elite of Chiang's armies. They now command more than half of the divisions...
...Daily News ace in the Golden Age of Manhattan tabloids. Boston-born in 1898, he groomed himself for his career by heading to sea at 14, driving an army truck in New Jersey during World War I. After the war, he traveled to the Orient, worked on Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Shanghai Gazette, also served on the Far Eastern Review...
...person whose judgment is greatly influenced by personal impressions, Foreign Minister Matsuoka may well translate his personal impressions of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin into Japanese foreign policy. Last week Japan learned just what those impressions had been. Colonel Yat-suji Nagai, a member of the Foreign Minister's suite, told of Matsuoka's meeting with Hitler...