Word: yatsen
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...hardboiled, stern Generalissimo, whose mother was a devout Buddhist, came under the influence of three powerful Christian influences in youth and early manhood-Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Mother" K. T. Soong and her daughter, Meiling. In 1930, three years after he had married the brilliant, Wellesley-educated Meiling, Chiang was baptized a Methodist, the faith of his wife and her family. But not until his captivity in Sian, by his testimony, did his religion become a part of himself, and thus a part of China...
...Generalissimo wrote her a letter which never reached her: "I will never allow myself to do anything to make my wife ashamed of me, or become unworthy of being a follower of Dr. Sun Yatsen. . . . You must never come to Shensi...
Alling (literally: "Friendly Life") Soong had married Dr. H. H. Kung, longtime Minister of Finance. In China Mme. Kung was known for her wealth. She was grave, efficient, strongwilled. Ching-ling ("Happy Life") was the idealist, the incarnation of the spirit of her late husband, Sun Yatsen. She was in ways the most beautiful, but she was incredibly shy. Mei-Ling ("Beautiful Life") was certainly the personality of the three. At the end of their Hong Kong reunion, all three went to Chungking and much was made of the United Soong Front...
...voice was that of Mme. Sun Yatsen. Tiny, spirited, inviolate, Mme. Sun lives in a three-story apartment house in Chungking, and emerges only rarely to make public statements. Last week, when she broke her silence, she voiced again the democratic conscience of China; once more she raised the dormant but still-vibrant national hopes of her late great husband, whose liberal program has been all but lost in the pressures of war under Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
...guiding posts: 1) China must become the economic, political, cultural and military equal of other nations; 2) the Chinese in occupied areas must be rescued and the Japanese must be driven from all Chinese soil; 3) a nationally elected People's Congress, the final stage of Dr. Sun Yatsen's three phases of national development (revolution, education, self-government), must be established and vested with the powers now closely held by the Kuomintang...