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...Gissimo ran his ashen-yellow hand over his knobby, shaved head. He spoke as always, snapping out the long vowels and hissing sibilants of his native tongue with the impatience of rifle fire. It was fitting that he should speak now, at the weekly Sun Yat-sen memorial service. For Chiang Kaishek, like Sun Yatsen, realized that in the wild and mountainous provinces of the great Northwest, China had an undeveloped treasure house. More than that, it was the last link with the outside world and a refuge for Free China if Chinese and United Nations armies were ever disastrously...
...other home," Nehru told TIME Correspondent Theodore White what he might have explained in a U.S. broadcast. Above him in the reception room of the Allahabad mansion were pictures of his father, Motilal Nehru, a signed photograph of Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kaishek, a photograph of Sun Yat-sen and Madame Sun. Gone was Nehru's laughter and the jokes he had made with the Chiangs last spring when they conferred on world problems in a villa at New Delhi. Great masses of flowers had been in bloom then. Now the flowers in India were burned...
...worked, they sampled public opinion by flashing the faces of various notables on cinema screens. A cinema audience at Blood and Sand was startled when the comely faces of Tyrone Power and Rita Hayworth were snatched off the screen and a portrait of the late great Dr. Sun Yat-sen appeared. After a bewildered moment, the audience applauded. When the face of Chiang Kai-shek appeared, the Chinese went wild with joy. Next, Puppet Wang. No go. Boos and hisses...
...more confidence." In China he got it fast. Paying his own fare out to Shanghai, Jacoby wangled a job under Dr. Hollington Tong, was delegated to reorganize Chungking's radio broadcasting. When he had got U.S. hookups for Madame Chiang Kaishek, her sisters (Madame Kung and Madame Sun Yat-sen), he headed home via Indo-China. He stopped over eight months, got arrested for taking pictures during the Jap invasion, came out a full-fledged U.P. correspondent...
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...