Word: yatsen
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...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 defeated in Asia...
...Plans. All this was good news to the Chinese. So were reports of oil discoveries "beyond expectations" in Kansu province and of economic, political and military cooperation which would have pleased Sun Yatsen. China's first great republican leader envisioned the Northwest's potentially rich 1,950,754 sq. mi. (pop. 21,000,000) as a new home for millions of Chinese from overpopulated areas. His San Min Chu I (principles of free government) have been brought by war to southern provinces once considered a political hinterland. So now night the northwest provinces be woven into the pattern...
Skis and Chinese are a rare photographic combination. At Sun Valley, Idaho two members of an illustious family produced it-Pearl and Tsi Suon, grandchildren of the late great Dr. Sun Yatsen, grandniece and grandnephew of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
This was followed by a really staggering warning from Anglophobe Dr. Sun Fo, President of Chungking's Legislative Yuan and son of China's George Washington, Sun Yatsen. Said Dr. Sun: "If the United States and Britain intend to allow Japan free rein in the Far East while they are finishing off Hitler, as seems to be indicated in recent speeches by [Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty A. V.] Alexander* and Knox, there is grave doubt in Chungking as to the wisdom of China's continuing to fight...
Caught in Hong Kong when war blasted its way onto the Pacific were a handful of Chinese notables, including Finance Minister and Vice Premier H. H. ("Daddy") Kung, his wife and her Soong sister, Madame Sun Yatsen, and much-loved, much-honored K. P. Chen, head of China's Currency Stabilization Board...