Word: yat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There would be duck dinners in Nanking and picnics among the pines above Sun Yat-sen's mausoleum. Shanghai's famed Bund would start a new life. Centers of industry and trade-some of them, like Shanghai's sprawling textile factories, relatively undamaged by war-would soon be at work. Everywhere outside the cities the largest number of self-respecting farmers in the world would tend their rice paddies, grain fields and vegetable plots, free at last from the alien taskmaster...
...regulations forbade Chinese newspapermen to write anything against the interest of the nation, required all Chinese newspapermen to join Chinese press associations, which are supervised by local representatives of the Ministry of Social Affairs. The press associations must adopt resolutions to spread national policies and the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles: Nationalism, Democracy, People's Livelihood...
...Acting Premier T. V. Soong has publicly hoped for the Emperor's destruction by U.S. bombers-"that would make one less embarrassing question to deal with later." Last week the Chungking press called for Hirohito's trial, execution and the public display of his body "on Sun Yat-sen Road near Nanking...
Donald, trusted and powerful confidential adviser to Chinese leaders from Sun Yat-sen to Chiang Kaishek, turned up last week, safe & sound, in one of the Manila prison camps. He had been a prisoner since 1942, when the Japs caught him on his way back to China from New Zealand via the Philippines. Obviously, he had used a false name to fool his captors...
...conditioned the rest of T.V. Soong's life. The Soong children called Dr. Sun Yat-sen "uncle." But they were too busy climbing garden walls, studying Confucius, learning Chinese nursery rhymes, Jesus Loves Me, and the story of George Washington to know what the little revolutionist would mean to China and to them. T.V. was a weedy adolescent (he outgrew his clothes every three months, and Sister Mei-ling wore his hand-me-downs) when the Revolution of 1911 broke out. "Uncle" Sun was not even around. He was in a Denver, Colo. restaurant, collecting funds from Chinese sympathizers...