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Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had been fighting from the days when, as a young officer, he had helped Sun Yat-sen organize China's democratic revolution. He had fought the war lords, he had fought the Communists, he had fought the Japanese. When it was no longer possible to hold against the Japanese, he had organized the retreat. In Chungking he had organized the resistance. By an act of inflexible will, which could brook no opposition because it must remain inflexible, the Generalissimo had held together China's battered, wasting strength. He knew there were abuses-there...
Foochow had fallen. But Free China, tired, grim and battered after more than seven years of almost unaided war against Japan, was observing an anniversary. It was Oct. 10, 33 years since Sun Yat-sen's revolution toppled the ancient Chinese Empire...
When the council met, there was nothing to distinguish this meeting from a dozen others. In the assembly hall a blue and white banner over the platform bore the legend "love and security." A large likeness of the late, great Dr. Sun Yat-sen stared down with brooding eyes at bored back-row members who read newspapers through Chiang Kai-shek's opening speech. Unsuspecting General Ho Ying-chin made an ominous report on Japanese advances, conditions in the Chinese Army. Suddenly it, happened. General Ho reeled under a blistering barrage of critical questions...
...Cohen, 57, old China hand and soldier of fortune; and Judith Clark, 40, proprietress of Montreal's Judith Clark dress shop; she for the second time, he for the first; in Montreal. A British-born onetime clothes peddler, he met China's late great Sun Yat-sen in Vancouver's Chinatown, became his personal bodyguard, later led Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese regulars and served in Europe as a secret agent for the Chinese...
Intolerant Party. Before China can realize Sun Yat-sen's principle of democracy the Kuomintang must be basically reorganized. Twenty years after its reorganization, the party has no "democratic inspiration" for the nation. It suppresses criticism from outside and inside. It regards itself as "the sovereign power in the state, entitled to the enjoyment of a special position," though it directly represents only an "infinitesimal portion" (less than 1%) of China's 450,000,000 people...