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...steel as a sculptural medium, was Beniamino Bufano, tough, visionary little Italian whose greatest ambition is to build San Francisco a 180-ft. statue of St. Francis of Assisi (TIME, Feb. 15). Many an old Chinese who suns himself daily in St. Mary's Square can remember Sun Yat-sen during his residence in San Francisco about 30 years ago; Sculptor Bufano can remember living in his Canton household for several months...
...roof and pattering loudly into tin pans. It was impossible to talk in comfort until deft Japanese orderlies had placed towels in the bottoms of the tin pans to deaden the noise. Then long-eared General Matsui fell to reminiscing about what a help he was to Dr. Sun Yat-sen and in general how Japan has helped eminent Chinese-indeed Chinese Premier and Generalissimo Chiang received his military education as a cadet in Tokyo...
...Yat-sen in his will said that China should unite with peoples who treat us on a basis of equality. We must realize that union with Russia is the only course left in the sphere of international cooperation...
Linbarger, author of a book which will appear in three weeks on the life of "Dr. Sun-Yat-Son," stated that "You cannot analyze a movement in China on an ecconomic basis, for too much of the power there is dependent on military considerations...
...Yat-sen," he writes, "during his first visit to Peking [1912]. ... I was not greatly impressed. . . . It appears to be generally forgotten now that he left Canton for his last trip to the north in November 1924, thoroughly discredited. He had converted the most prosperous portion of that city into a charnel-house, and completely subordinated himself and the Kuomintang to Moscow Communists. He, who had owed his life on at least two occasions to British protection, and who, less than two years previously, had, in the course of an address to the students of Hongkong University, lauded the administration...