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...Scholarly, liberal Dr. Sun Fo, 54, son of the great Sun Yat-sen and President of the Legislative Yuan...
...Chinese Central Government troops swept into Canton, Shanghai, Ichang, Nanking. In Nanking their first act was to pay their respects to the memory of Sun Yat-sen at his mausoleum. All Japanese forces in China were to be surrendered within the week...
...words brushed memories that went back to the beginnings of modern China. In 1924 the Communists were part of Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary people's party, the Kuomintang. Chiang, just back from military training in Moscow, had the job of organizing the Whampoa Military Academy, the nucleus of China's new nationalist army. Mao and Chou were his comrades and the army's political commissars. From Canton the three men marched together on the famed Northern Expedition (1926-27), which gave republican China its first taste of unity. They split when Chiang broke with...
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...
Plan for Progress. The overall plan stemmed from Sun Yat-sen's famed Outline for Industrial Development. In the dark days at Chungking, when victory seemed so remote, planning had been the food of hope. Blueprints had been polished and refined. In 1941, the Generalissimo had distilled what will become China's first long-range plan to transform herself into a modern industrial power...